A/N: Hey all Sorry this took a bit longer to get out. Had some things I needed to take care of. My son's bday is on the 3rd so had to get him his spiderman ice cream cake ordered, and his gifts wrapped. Plus had an appoint this morning...Thank you all for your kind reviews...JB...once again, I love your kind words. Always count on you to leave one. So with that being said...On with the show!

Chapter 15

Time Jump-1 week

Ana POV:

Today Kate and I graduate from college! It was been an amazing four years of school. There has been some ups and downs. The police still has not found Jose, Kate moved in with Elliot, and I am staying with Christian till they can find him and put in him jail. After I left the hospital, there was two detectives that come to Christian's to talk to me. I told them everything that happened, even the keys gone missing, to some of my things. I still can't believe I didn't see the signs.

Sawyer has been my full time CPO...we have become close since this whole things has happened. He blames himself for not staying, I told him not too, because it was not his fault, just like he tells me it is not mine. So we made a deal. We will stop blaming ourselves and just move on. Sawyer, or Luke as I call him, which Christian is not to happy about but he's my CPO and if he's gonna be with me, then I will call him Luke. He has become one of my best friends I would say. He's like an older brother to me, and I am like a younger sister to him, so it woks out well.

I am out front of the school waiting for everyone to show up. It's not just my dad coming, but its Grace, Carrick, Elliot, Taylor, Gail, Luke. Mia would be here, but she's still in Paris working on a major project for her cooking school, but she sends her love and I know she wanted to be here. Growing up I was always wanted a big family. I was an only child, but I had the Gery's. They were also my family. Elliot is my big goofball brother, Mia is my younger crazy girly girl sisiter, Grace and Carrick are like another mom and dad. Then there is Christian. The love of my life. He is my everything. In this past week living together has shown me just how much I really do love him and he love me. Sure we bicker, but who doesn't right?

" Annie!" I hear my dad's voice calling out to me from behind me.

" Dad!" I wrap my arms around his neck and give him a big hug. Then I see everyone else join in.

" Anna, darling we are so proud of you, and Kate. I can't believe you are finally graduating today. Grace pulls me into a motherly hug.

" Anna congratulations." Carrick says as he kisses my check.

" Banana!" Elliot picks me up and swings me around and I have to giggle at him. " You did it sis. I am so proud of you. I know you will do great things here soon." Elliot kisses me on the check and gives me a goofy smile.

" Get your hands off my women Ell, and go get yours." Christian comes walking up from being inside and getting his speech ready. " Hey beautiful." He gives me a soft kiss on the lips. We have to be careful as we have not gone public yet. I told Christian I want to wait till Jose is caught before we do anything. He did not like it, but he agreed with me, only seeing it will keep me safe.

" Ana!" I turn around and see Gail and Taylor coming up the steps. They make their way over to the rest of us and Gail gives me a hug. " Ana, you look so grown up. I can't believe it, It seems just like yesterday, you were still in high school and Christian was bringing you over on the weekends." Gail starts to cry thinking about how much she has seen me grow up. Gail is like yet another mother to me. I have 2 wonderful women in my life that I consider a mom.

" Gail, don't cry or your going to make me cry too." I wipe a small tear from my eye before it falls to my check.

" Ana. You did good little one. I am so proud of you. Not just finishing school with all the stress, but you finally manager to get the boss man to calm down and tame, well for the most part." Taylor snickers at this. But I do have to agree, since Christian and I have become a couple he has mellowed out quite a bit and everyone loves me for it.

" Taylor, what dose that mean?" Christian's says with a hint of humor in his voice. He knows its true as well.

" Ok, well let's all go in, it will be starting soon. I tell everyone as we head back inside. I wave bye to my family. My family. That is what they are. Christian and I walk towards the front, where I go and head for my seat and him up to the stage, but before I can leave he pulls me down a hallway pushes me up against the wall and kisses me. His hands cup both of my checks, my hands go to his hair and pull him closer to me. I arch my back off the wall to feel his body close to mine. I moan into his mouth. I can feel his erection hit my thigh. The kiss turns passionate, deep, like it is our last kiss. We are all mouth and tongues. He finally pulls away and rest his forehead on mine. We stay like that till we can catch our breaths.

" Ana, what you do to me."

I giggle at this. " Yes I know, I can feel him against me." I say in a very seductive voice. Christian groans, and I have to giggle again.

" Ana, I have to get up on stage here and I can't well do that with a raging hard on now can I? What am I going to do about this?" We have not had sex yet, or anything else put make out. I am not ready for sex just yet and he knows and respects that. He is not rushing me into anything, but maybe tonight I will help me relax a bit.

" I'm sorry baby, I didn't mean to do it." I bit my lip as I say this, and I only know that this will get me even more into trouble because me biting my lip drives me crazy.

" Ana, stop biting your lip. I need to calm down here, not get more worked up."

" I know, I really am sorry. Maybe tonight, I can help you with you umm problem." I look up at him through my lashes, and give him a small smile.

" I don't want to push you Ana, we have talked about this, only when your ready."

" I know, and I'm not saying I am ready for that, but maybe...maybe we can try out some other things."

" Really?" He arches his eye brow at me." And what other things do you have in mind Miss Steele?"

" Well Mr. Grey, that is for my to know and for you to find out...later..." I give him a wink and give him one more kiss before we have to take our seats. When I finally get to my seat and I see Christian get on stage and shake hands with a few people, I think about how good my life is right now. I can't say perfect because it is far from that right now, but I will say good for now. I have done with school, I have a few interviews lined up next week, I have my family, all of my family. And I have the man of my dreams. Life is good, all expect this whole Jose thing. But I will not think about that. I will let police handle it. I just need to move on, and live my life.

The speeches are going good, Kate has been working on her speech for over a month and I have heard it over and over again. She is killing it up there. There have been a few tears from people around me. There has been some laughs as well. But most there is has been love. Kate put so much love into her speech. She has put her heart into it and I can't be more proud of her.

" As we look back on the past four years of our lives can we say we did all we could? How many of us wish we could go back and study for that test just a few hours more? Or get the guts to finally ask him or her out? These past four years has been a great adventure. We have seen so many things, seen people come and go. Made friends, lost friends. I for one don't regret a single moment of these past four years. Yes I can say I had some hard times, but those hard times made me push myself to become better. To look at what went wrong, so I know what I needed to work on. I loved being here at school with all of you. You all made my college experience beyond anything I had imagined. I know that when I look back years from now, I can honestly say, I did my best, I gave it my all. I worked my ass off and I didn't give up no matter how many times I thought I should. When I look back, and I can tell my children when they ask if I enjoyed being here? I can say with all of my heart, that college was some of the best four years of my life. So in closing, I want to thank all the grads here today, the family and friends who came to see us. The staff. We could not have done this without each and every single one of you. So thank you. Here is looking at the next four years and then some."

Kate's speech got a standing ovation. What can I say? She is amazing! As the applause is dying down and everyone takes their seats again, I see the chancellor come up and introduce Christian. He is next to give his speech.

" Thank you chancellor, Dean, and the staff here at WSU. I am very moved to see a wonderful group of graduates today. To see all the hard work you have put into these four years, the full time jobs, the part time jobs, the extra hours of studying just to make it to where you are today. As you embark to take the next steps in your life, rather that be continuing schooling, finding a job, getting married, having kids, or just traveling the world, know this. Never stop learning. We learn new things everyday. And with each new day, brings a new hope. A hope we can better ourselves, better the world. Don't let anyone tell you, you can't do something. If you believe in yourself enough go after what you want, then you have already succeeded. You may not fail before you finally get it right. But failure is when you stop trying altogether. So no matter how long it takes, always give your all. For what was the point of coming to college to not even try? To not put your degree to good use? You all, are our today's so make each day count as you give you all for the tomorrows. Thank you."

Once again crowed gives Christian an standing ovation as well. Once all the speeches are over they starting calling our names up to the stage to receive our diplomas. After an hour they finally hit the S's. As I am getting closer to the stage, I have butterflies in my stomach. I can't believe this is it. I hear my name being call, I walk across the stage to where Christian is standing, and I hear shouting from the stands. I see Elliot standing up cheering along with my dad. I look back over to see the smile on Christian's face. He hand's me my diploma and shakes my hand.

" I am so very very proud of you Ana. I love you." He whispers to me. I so bad want to grab him and kiss him right here in front of everyone, but I know I can't. I walk off the stage and take my seat and wait for them to finish up with the names. A soon as the last night is called and the Dean comes back and announces us graduated, everyone starts clapping.

I go to find Kate so we can meet up with our families in the tent out back. When I find her she is in a lip lock with Elliot. Go figure. I clear my throat to let them know I am here.

" Umm guys? Could you wait to do to that later? We need to met up with everyone."

" Sorry Ana, I just couldn't wait to kiss my college graduate girl." Elliot's voice is full of pride for Kate. Kate giggles at him and pulls him for back for another kiss.

" Ok well, I will meet you guys out back then." As I am going to walk away, Elliot pulls me into a hugs and kisses my check.

" I'm really proud of you too Ana. I mean it. I love you sis." I blush at Ell's comment.

" Thanks, we should be getting to the tents as the family will be waiting for us." I tell them as are about to go back into another lip lock.

Christian POV:

I couldn't more prouder of Ana. When she walked across that stage and she got to me, I so wanted to grab her and kiss the hell out of her. But we agreed to wait to go public with our relationship till this Jose fucker is caught and put behind bars. God I hope that is soon. I am outside in the tent they have set up for everyone to celebrate. They have champagne which is not very good, wine, which is so-so, hors d'oeuvers. I am waiting for Ana to get here and I have been stopped by a few people who comment on my speech and how it moved them. The Dean finds me and wants to talk about the budget, I told him to call my office on Monday and we will set up a time to talk as now is not the best.

I make my way back around to where Ray and my parents are and I spot her walking in with Kate and Elliot. We lock eyes and she smiles and bits her bottom lip. My dick instantly starts to twitch. I know I said I would not push her into the sex thing, but when she told me that we can try some other stuff tonight, I thought I would cum in my pants right then and there. Just the thought of Ana doing anything with my dick gets me going.

We make our way to each other and I pull her into a hug and breath in her Ana scent. Vanilla and honey. The smell of home. Since Ana has been staying with me the past week I have come to fall even more in love with her scent. As soon as I get off the elevator to my penthouse that is the first thing I smell. I kiss the top of her head. She has her arms wrapped around my waist and holds me tight to her body. Ana giggles as she feels my dick against her thigh.

" I take it your happy to see me?"

" I am always happy to see you Ana you know that." I so bad want to kiss her right now. Her blue eyes stare into my gray and I can see the want in her eyes also. If only she let me go public this would not be an issue right now. I would be able to kiss her in the open and not have to worry about anything or anyone. All because of this Jose fucker. Maybe we should go public to draw him out. I will have to talk to my father and see what he thinks, and if he thinks it's a good idea then I will run it past Ana.

" Come, let go greet our parents." I say as I offer my arm for her to take. We walk over to where our family is standing Ana, gives everyone a hug and we get into a light conversation. As we are talking and making plans for dinner tonight at my club I notice Taylor has a worried look on his face. I follow his eyes and that's when I see her. Page Hall. She was my last sub, and when I ended out contract, she did not take it very well. She kept telling me she was in love with me, and she wanted more. She wanted us to be a couple. I could not give her what she wanted. I knew even back then I was in love with Ana, but never though I had a chance. I excuse myself and make my over there before she has a chance to come here and Ana sees her. Even if Ana knows about my past, I still don't want them to meet.

" Page, What are you doing here?" My voice is a little harsh, but I really don't care right now. She has her head bowed looking at the ground.

" Page, I am not your Dom anymore, you may speak."

" Sir, I came to get a chance to see you. I was hoping we can start where we left off and I might be your sub again. Mistress Elena said that you were in need of one, and I was hoping that it would be me."

" Page I told you when I ended our contract that I was getting out of that lifestyle, and right now you are braking you NDA. You need to leave now."

" Who is that women you are with? If you are not in that lifestyle, then who is she? What dose she mean to you?"

" That is none of your business Page, now you need to go before I have Taylor remove you." Just as I am finishing up I feel a pair of hands on my shoulder and I look and see it's Ana. Oh great, this is not going to go very well. I give Taylor a silent look with my eyes telling him to be ready just in case.

" Christian, everything ok? We are ready to leave for dinner." Ana is talking but never taking her eyes off of Page.

" Sir, dose not like to be called by his name." Page's voice comes off with a hiss.

" Sir? Really? Well I do not call him Sir, seeing how Christian and I are in a relationship." Ana's voice comes off just cold. But she places her hand on my chest knowing no one has ever been allowed to touch me. Ana is making her territory.

" Sir dose not like to be touched!" Page moves closer to try and remove Ana's hand and that is a big mistake. As Page is reaching out, Ana grabs her and and twist's it around her back and holds her there while talking in her ear. Man is it wrong to be turned on seeing your girlfriend take down one's ex sub?

" Listen here Missy. I don't know who you are, I can't really care. But know this. Your Sir as you like to call him is off limits do you got it? He is mine and has been for a very long time. I know everything about him inside and out. So if I were you, I would go back to where ever you came from and don't and I repeat, don't ever come near, call Christian again. He is mine. Now leave." Ana's voice was calm, very calm. It sent chills up my spine. Just seeing her take control like that, has me rock hard. Ana releases Page, and comes back over to me, kisses me hard, I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her close to me so she can feel what she has done to me. I pull back not waiting to cause a scene, but it's to late people are looking and I am sure someone got a photo of us.

Page walks off and Taylor follows her to make sure she dose leave. We finally make it to the Mile High Club for dinner, but Ana has been distance since the whole page thing. I hope she knows that I love her and I will never go back to that. Ana is all I ever need and want in my life. Maybe if I ask her to marry me, she will know just how much I love her and how much I want her in my life. But is it too soon to ask her? Yeah we just starting dating, but we have know each other our whole lives, so that has to count for something right? I will have to Taylor. Of course I need to ask Ray for her hand.

All throughout dinner Ana has barely looked at me. Anytime I ask her something it is always a one word answer. This is not good. She is laughing and talking to everyone else putting on a good show, but I know her. She is pissed and I can't say that I blame her, but really it is not my fault either. I did not call Page and tell her to come. I have not heard or seen her in over 2 years. This is Elena's doing. Once again she is showing her true colors and being a thorn in my side. I can't wait till Ross is done with everyone. I just hope it's sooner rather than later. I want her out of my life as soon as possible.

We say good bye to everyone as all heading to our homes. Kate is still with Ell, which seem to be going pretty good I might say. Ray is staying with mom and dad, so they can all catch up. Taylor, Gail, Ana and myself are heading back to Escala. Once again Ana is being cold. Sitting as far away from me as she can. I know she has to be hurt and pissed off, but I wish she would just talk to me. We get to the underground parking garage, and Taylor pulls into my spot. Ana is out of the car faster than I can whip and whip. I get out and meet her at the elevator, Taylor and Gail give notice Ana, and tell us good night and they take the staff elevator up.

Ana and I get into the elevator and Ana puts in the code for the penthouse and we start going up. I start to speak.

" Ana."

" Don't."

" Ana please."

" Christian I said don't." The elevator door opens and Ana takes off. I rush to catch up with her. I grab her arm and spin her around to face me.

" Ana, please talk to me."

" Talk? You want me to talk to you? Fine let's talk Christian." Ana pushes herself away from me, putting distance between us. " How many more and I going to have to deal with Christian? Huh? First it was and still is Elena, then Lelia, now this one. How many more Christian are going to start popping up?"

" Ana, I had no idea she was going to be there. I have not seen or talk to her since I ended things over 2 years ago. As for Elena I am dealing with that, and Lelia, I have not seen her since the day you kicked them out of here. I'm sorry Ana I really am." I try to move closer to her, but she just steps back and wraps her arms around herself.

" Baby, please. She meant nothing and means nothing to me. You are all that I want and need in my life. It's just you. Please believe me."

" Christian, do you know how hard that was to see and hear? Do you have any idea how much it hurts seeing them? They all look like me, but only prettier. God, Christian, why do you want me when you can have any of them again?"

" Ana now that is enough! I have told you it is my past and you knew that well before we got together. You are much better looking than any of them. You can give me what they never could. You can touch me."

" Still, I want to know how many more are going to start coming back into your life because of the Bitch Troll."

" Ana stop, you are now starting to make me mad. I have told you before and I will tell you again. I. Do. No. Want. Them. I only want you. I will deal with Elena."

" That's my point Christian. She is doing this so you will have to call and talk to her, or see her. She is once again making you do what she wants you to do. Why can't you see that?"

" ANA! She is not making me do anything! Have I called her? No I have seen her? NO. Now stop all this."

" Whatever I'm going to bed." Ana starts walking off to the guest room and I call after her.

" Ana? I thought we...you know we were going to try some things tonight. Baby you have had me so hard all night. You told me you would take care of it for me." I walk up to her using my seductive voice.

" Really Christian?"

" Yes baby...I need to take care of it." I look down to see the tent in my pants. Hoping this help her get back in the mood.

" Yeah well take care of it yourself." And with that she walks away and into the guest room and slams the door. Well it looks like a cold shower for me.

A/N: Well all what do you think? What do you think about Miss Page? Do you think she will be a problem for them? What about Elena sending her to Christian? She's got some balls don't she. Next is another time jump. Not a big one maybe a month. Leave your reviews. Until next time...

Much Love,

Allie