Oh my word, thank you for all the wonderful reviews . I appreciate all of them and y'all.
y'all don't know how much that means to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
This chapter was going to be continued from the last one but a lot of y'all are asking for information on Ana so I am going to give y'all some background on her to help you understand where she came from and where she has got to where she is now.
I am also making Ana and Christian the same age in my story
All mistakes are mine
As always thank you EL James
I am so sorry I need to apologize for the misunderstandings in Chapters 1 and 2. I wrote that Ana's momma was driving her crazy and in chapter(1) and in chapter (2) I wrote that Ray said she was dead.
Now let me clear that up: Ana's mother died giving birth to her due to complications. The only mother figure Ana has in her life is her grandmother, who she calls granmomma because she is the only one she has ever looked up to besides her daddy. She was close to Grace when she was little .I wrote granmomma in the 1st chapter but when talking to text it changed it to momma with my southern accent it did not understand me. I am so sorry I overlooked that and confused you LeLev.
Her daddy said it was only her and him but she spent a lot time with her granmomma when she was younger because Ray was always on call for the government.
Now when she comes to visit him or she wants to get ideas for baby food she visits her granmomma who is getting up there in age but she is still a fiesty old girl and can run circles around Ana
Ana lives with Ray in Atlanta, Georgia when she comes home from her business or her travels opening up more plants. It's easier to live with him than for her to buy her own home
Now about the phone call in chapter (2) Ana said it was too late to call Ray but with the information she got in her reports she knew she had to talk to him. He is always on call with the agencies and would never refuse a call from Ana no matter the time besides he is working with her trying to find out who stole all of Christian's money
One more misunderstanding to clear up
Even though Ana and Christian were best friends and he threw her away and their friendship for the blonde bimbo he did yard work for when they were teenagers but it never stopped either one from trying to keep tabs on each other.
Christian knew he had hurt her but he couldn't have her in his life anymore because Mrs. Lincoln said he didn't need her interfering with his work progress for her. She told him she was a distraction to him
They checked up on each other either as they got older through family or tabloids which are a dime a dozen. You can find out things by looking at them. Ana kept up with Christian more through her network connections and found out that he started his company GEH and was doing very well with it. Also with Ray when he was in Seattle for business.
Christian had Elliot also keeping him up to date about Ana. Cause he knew Elliot was working for Ana
Even though Elliot told him he didn't deserve to know how his best ex friend was doing he didn't tell him much
He knew Ana was a business woman now but he didn't know a whole lot about her cause Ray nor his father would tell. Also Carrick and Ray both threatened him if he pulled a background check on her
He did try once in awhile to speak to Ray but not often
But as Christian got older he did it himself praying they never found out… him and his damn background checks ….he better be more worried about Ana
Jackass that he is…but he didn't get anything but basic information with her and Rays government contacts he was a man in a boat without a paddle when it came to checking up on Ana
I really hope that cleared up where I confused anyone
now on with the back story of Ana
My name is Anastasia Rose Steele and I was born September 11, 1985 to Raymond and Carla Steele unfortunately my mother died during my birth due to complications. My daddy Ray raised me here in Bellevue with the help of Mrs. Grey. She was like a mother to me. When daddy was on duty because he was working for the government . She had two boys already they were in the process of adopting a baby girl
When I was 6 years old when daddy was transferred to Georgia and I spent a good deal of my time with my granmomma my mothers mother. She was the only mother figure in my life after we moved from Washington. Granmomma Sadie let me help with the food preparations when I got older and I got to where I wanted to play around with different foods and new recipes.
We were again being relocated this time to Washington, DC by the president to be his Advisor. I was nine years old. I didn't want to leave granmomma but daddy said I had to go with him.
I continued to experiment with different foods and asked daddy to fix me up in a place in the basement so I could work down there . We had a big house and a huge basement. That wonderful daddy of mine made me a state of the art kitchen with every new appliance you could think of. Double ovens and all. Tables that ran the length of the room
As I was perfecting my recipes, the president's wife had a baby girl and she knew I was making all kinds of different foods from my recipes from vegetables and fruits and asked me if I could make baby food from them. I told her I would try.
I did and her little girl loved it. So the first lady told her friend and so on and so forth and I was making and selling baby food to the neighborhood. Then it expanded to the market and then low and behold I got an interview for some big food network show. Now you gotta understand I had just turned ten years old but everyone was talking about the advisors daughter making baby food,
Good thing I was being home schooled . Daddy said if I wanted to do it I could. So for six months I was on Food For You and Food Network big company. I would have continued but there was a tragedy in my family.
Daddy and I had to fly to Texas because his only family he had left was in an accident . They were flying back from Hawaii when their private plane crashed killing everyone on board. His father and his two uncles. My daddy was the last of the Steeles beside me
Daddy was devastated and I cried so hard it wasn't fair.
Daddy took care of everything because he was an only child and the only one left in the family besides me.
The reading of the will was something I never would have thought or believed . I almost fainted when I heard what was left to us. My grandpa left everything to me and daddy and my two great uncles left us their fortune .
My daddy came from old money. Not too many people know how rich the Steeles were. They are all oil barons from generations . I think from my great, great, great grandfathers they struck oil many years ago and they had oil refineries all over Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and a few other places. They were Trillionaires.
Daddy and I was the left the houses in Texas and the oil refineries and well everything
We lived in Texas for a few years while he was getting everything taken care of. He got a call from the government they wanted and needed him back in Georgia. So we up and moved again.
While daddy was gone here or there I lived with my granmomma and she taught me how to make my baby food recipes better and I did
Daddy got another assignment this time back to our hometown Bellevue. We still had our house there daddy never sold it and he had someone taking care of it. The Greys still lived there and the kids had grown up the same as me but I remembered each one of them, especially Christian with the beautiful eyes. And baby Mia wasn't a baby anymore
We were invited over to their house for a BBQ and I got to meet all the kids again before school started. I really liked their youngest son Christian who was my age. He still had the most unusual eyes. They were like storm clouds so gray and bright and when he did smile it lit up his whole face but he was still kinda standoffish, not really trying to put any effort into being nice or friendly. I still wanted to get to know him because we were neighbors and I wanted to bring him out of his shell.
I remember when we were younger he didn't talk and he kept to himself. Now he is talking but still keeps to himself
His older brother Elliot was a jack of all trades always making everyone laugh and cutting up with us . Their younger sister Mia was sweet and very spoiled; she was everyone's little princess.
We also met another couple daddy said Mr. Grey told him they were the Lincolns they had moved there a few years after we left for Georgia and they all became good friends
I was a teenager and was going to be starting at a private school a grade higher than I was supposed to. I was going to high school, not the eighth grade as we thought because of my homeschool time. The teachers told daddy I was too smart for middle school when he took me there. Well yeah I was what some call a prodigy child. My granmomma always said I was too smart for my britches and she would laugh
I guess I surprised Christian when I walked into his class on the first day. He wasn't expecting me to be there. Well if the jackass had given me the time of day longer than he did at the BBQue I would have told Me. I Don't Care but no he didn't stay around long enough so tough tittie said kittie but the milks all gone
It was lunch time and I was sitting by myself and lordy mercy never would have believed that Mr. Stuck Up wanted to sit with me. We talked and kinda became friends. It wasn't until some punk kid wanted to mess with me that Christian stepped in and told him to leave me alone. I could have taken care of him myself but I was glad he did it for me. We became friends that day and I started helping him with his homework cause he was having trouble with a few classes.
We became best friends over the school year. Always sitting together laughing and cutting up. I got him out of his shell. His parents couldn't believe it. It was like he was a changed boy his mother told me.
Sometimes when we all got together for BBQues or cookouts the Lincolns were always there or Mrs. Lincoln was, It was like she invited herself cause Mrs. Grey always looked surprised to see her.
That woman rubbed me the wrong way especially the way she would look at Elliot and Christian and try to touch them. That was when Mrs. Grey wasn't in the room. From my understanding Mrs. LIncoln knew about Christians touch issues but it was like she would push it.
As we got into the tenth grade Christian started fighting cause someone would always try to touch him or bump into him . He couldn't take it so he lashed out instead of explaining his touch issues.
I tried to help him but he didn't want my help. He told me he was no good for me but he never told me why and he couldn't be touched and I never asked him or his mother that would have been invading his privacy
His fighting continued and his getting expelled from school started messing with his grades and he was failing.
I also found out from Elliot he was caught stealing his fathers liquor and getting drunk. Something was seriously going on with Christian but he wouldn't let me in.
During all this time he was angry and took it out on everyone. He destroyed his room all the time
Now for some odd reason Mrs. Lincoln talked Mrs. Grey into letting Christian come to her house to remove rubble from the backyard to work off his aggressive behavior . She said it would be good for the boy . That's what she called him. Never made sense but after a few days he was like a different person. Made me wonder what changed him
He was a fifteen year old with anger issues and touch issues. He was a young boy with raging hormones. I saw how he would look at all the girls even me sometimes
From the time he started helping at the Lincolns he was not the same Christian I knew. He was changing and I don't want to think about the reason why. He might be young but I saw the way she always looked at him. And I have seen him come home after being over there . Some nights he could barely walk.
As time went on he became distant not only with his family but with me. He never had time to just sit and talk or even speak to me at school. It was like I was a disease to him and he no longer wanted to be my friend.
I was graduating high school a year early and going to Harvard for college. That was my dream and I made it.
I hated leaving Christian even though he told me we couldn't be friends anymore. He broke my heart and he knew when he looked at me.
My daddy and Mrs. Grey gave me a going away party and I couldn't believe that Christian was there for it. It surprised the heck out of me. He also told me he was sorry but he couldn't help it and I would never understand. He kissed me on the cheek and gave me my favorite flower, a lily. I wanted to not excepted it but I did and I said thank you
I was at Harvard for a year when I looked up from my business class and saw none other than Christian walking in the door. He saw me and smiled and started making his way to me. Told him fancy seeing him here and he said he got himself straightened out and pulled his grades up and got into Harvard. He smiled again but never once did he mention what happened back home and neither did I
I continued with my classes in Business and Finance and Christian did his Business classes but he was really not interested in them . His economics professor told him he needed to put forth more effort but it was like he was in another world. He didn't care
Now I was walking by one of the fancy hotels here and I just happened to look up and see Christian and none other than Mrs. Lincoln walked out and Christian seemed like he could barely walk. They didn't see me or I thought they didn't. But somehow I know she did. Cause a few days later Christian was standoffish again.
I let it go cause it wasn't worth worrying over . He got himself into that whatever that was with her and he would rather be with her than his friend then more power to him. I just hope he realizes what she is doing to him before it is too late.
Again I am graduating early from College and daddy and the Greys are coming to my graduation. Christian still has two more years.
I took two years and traveled from here to there just relaxing and deciding what I want to do. Looked at locations for my first plant. I know for a while I want to write recipes with my granmomma. I am going to see her when my plane lands in Atlanta. Wish me luck she is something else
I talked to my daddy after I got back home from visiting granmomma and decided I want to open my first baby food plant. Naming it Steele Cuisine Baby Foods. It's not like I don't have the money. Heck fire I could start a few but I need to get one up and running first.
I ask daddy to talk to Carrick and see if he could be my business attorney. I am not sure if he is licensed in Georgia. I know some attorneys are in different states
If he is, he will be the only one that will know about my money. Well not all of it just the part I am going to be using for my businesses
Daddy agrees with me that Carrick would be a good attorney for me if he couldn't. He could recommend someone here in Georgia and the money is there when I want and need it.
I had to talk to Mr. Elliot Grey and see if he wanted the job or if he could recommend someone . I don't know if this is in Elliot's work description even though he is in construction and has his own company. This job might not be for him or he might need more help. If so that won't be a problem money's no option
Later I talked to Elliot and he got his crew and two more together and they all flew to Atlanta, Georgia and I got my first plant built. Let me tell you it is a doozy so big and well it is huge
Elliot updated me on all that was going on back home in Washington with his family and especially Christian.
Was floored when he said Christian quit college and wanted to start his own company but Carrick wouldn't give him his trust fund but he didn't go back to college either.
His parents were hurt and Carrick was angry
Will wonders never cease . Christian surprised everyone he got the money to start his business and he is doing very well. Well, well is an understatement he is a millionaire and they say he will be a billionaire before long.
I just wonder who gave him the start up funds
He bought his penthouse at Escala and when I talked to him he seemed happy about it
Elliot told me Christian had changed and not for the better. He was more of an ass than he was before. Elliot said he was glad he only had to see him on Sunday. That was enough for him.
He told me that Christian was spending all his time with the pedo…no he didn't call her that I did and I truly believe she is one
I didn't have time to be bothered with him right now.
I was on my way to Washington, DC to see the president and his guys for some work they needed me to do. Yes, while I was being homeschooled I was also learning about different agencies like daddy worked with.
They all told me as small as I was no one would ever suspect me. I said come on just cause I was five foot nothing I was strong and built cause this little girl worked out and had a personal trainer I could take to the floor.
The president himself said ok little firecracker we got you (and he laughed) at me
I did different kinds of jobs and learned a lot. I mean a lot. I got into places no one else could. I could work a computer like no ones business and I found things I on people that would blow your ever lovin mind
Now I am back in Georgia after doing a few jobs for my country. Visiting my daddy and granmomma . I have my company up and running in Charleston, SC and soon I am going to expand further out. I plan on building in Hawaii and overseas when the time comes
Well as of now I am back in Bellevue daddy is here visiting so I thought I would stop by and check on my apartment and him and possibly visit the Greys. Never know Christian might be there it is Sunday after all
Daddy invited me to join him in town but as we were leaving Carrick walks out and invites us over for a cookout. We decide to join them
Oh my land's sake, what in the hell is that blonde bitch always doing here and she has Christian stuck in a corner talking to him? She is here everytime I stop by.
Not to often but when I do she is here with them
What is her angle? I wonder why she has to talk to him like they are hiding a secret.
I look over at Elliot and Mia they just shake their heads
Carrick lets them all know we are here and yells for Grace to let her know that I am here also. Christian looks up at me and then the bitch does. he smiles at me and she glares what's up with her
Christian walks over to me and says hey and asks how I have been . told him good and very busy
Then she is calling him back to her like he is her pet or something
Why the hell is he even talking to her
he isn't a kid anymore
Christian we need to finish our conversation now she says and then she says that was rude of you to leave like that she says
Elena, Carrick says to her this is Sunday and there will be no business discussed today. Do it on your own damn time. I have told you and Christian that many times and I am tired of repeating myself. I don't know what business you have to discuss with him anyway. If that is not to your liking there is the door. I remember that as it was yesterday
The bitch huffed and puffed an demanded Christian like her lap dog to follow her
I remember him glaring at her and telling her to go home they had company he would talk to her another time….she stormed out
Well that was interesting but you don't have to stay on my account I didn't even know you would be here
I have nowhere else I would rather be and we need to talk if you want to. I know I have treated you horribly and I want to apologize please
Well that floored little ol me. I accepted his apology but I would never forget the way he talked to me. Over the course of the next year we kinda fell back into being friends when the bitch wasn't around that is.
This is end of Ana's backstory and history
As present she is friends with Christian they are getting closer but there are things they have to talk about
Right now she is involved with trying to find out who is stealing all his money and telling him things he should have already told her over the years nothing to be embarrassed about but she knew he would be
I hope y'all liked all that and it helped with the confusion.
I probably could have left out some of what I wrote but my Ana had me writing every word and Christian was part of her back story
I am in the process of finishing chapter 4 and it will be about Christian overhearing Grace and Elena talking about his birth mother and finding out what is going to happen to his billions.
Remember the Initials we gonna look at them and try to figure the names out
Thank y'all again for all the reviews and followers I am amazed