CHAPTER 11

The next couple days went by and Christian got his in house audit results back on Wednesday. Over the last six years, Elena Lincoln, had been siphoning money from various ways and sources from him and her own businesses. The amount that was returned was $14,187,551.83 embezzled. The auditors said that there may be more depending on a field audit on the three locations he just set up and sent them out immediately to the properties. They were closing down her salons tomorrow morning.

Christian sat there staring and was shocked at such an amount. She had been on the take from the very start and had taken approximately two and a half million a year. She had him so placated into believing she was only interested in his well-being all the while stealing eight figures out of his pocket. How did she blind him like this for so long?

There was a knock on the door of his office and Ana walked in holding bags of food from Lola's Greek food. She closed the door, walked over to the glass table and set the bags of food down.

She took off her coat and laid it over the chair. She was dressed in a espresso brown bodycon stretchy midi length, long sleeve, square neckline dress with a ruched drawstring to raise the hemline up the thigh on one side.

She was saying cheerfully, "Christian, you wouldn't believe the traffic out there for lunchtime today. You'd think everyone would learn to pack a lunch every day downtown. The lady at the counter at Lola's was shouting orders, running around like a chicken with its head cut off flapping around and stressed out like a typical Greek mother. She had three other people on the counter too and she was the only one freaking out." He walked up behind her silently, open mouth kissed her neck and put his arm around her waist hugging her. She turned in his arms sensing something, looked him in the eyes and stopped what she was doing.

Ana looked at him with concern, put her hands on his shoulders and slid her hands on both sides of his face. She softly asked, "What's wrong, Christian? Talk to me." He wrapped his arms around her tighter and hugged her to his body tightly against his chest.

He said with his voice cracking, "I feel like such a fool." She frowned and kissed him lightly on the lips. Ana led him to the one chair in front of his desk and sat him down. She pulled the other chair up right in front of the other and sat facing him. She held his hand and was caressing his cheek. He was getting emotional with water in his eyes and not knowing how to handle it. She was glad he wasn't dealing with it in a rage like before.

Ana said softly, "Tell me what happened and what's on your mind, baby?" He slightly smiled at her calling him baby.

He said softly, "She embezzled almost 14.2 million in six years, about two and a half a year from me from the very start. She had me so sucked into believing she was a trusted and benevolent friend. I was so convinced that there was no other way than what she told me all these years. Now, I feel so stupid." Ana leaned in and kissed him softly.

She said gently, "No, Christian. It's not your fault because that's what people like this do. They try to make you feel guilty about all the shit they did to you. She took your mother's trust and information and used it to gain your trust for manipulation purposes. She played on your teenage yearnings for physical contact and budding sexuality. Her methods were grooming and programming you into making you like her so you would be her perfectly cruel protégé. She knew you were going to be successful and brilliant with all the money and influence. She wanted to use you to feel like she was in control and better than everyone else. She wanted you to belong to her. She wanted you to need her so much that you would follow her every word or command without question. She is a narcissistic sociopathic pedophile with delusions of grandeur."

Christian said looking in her eyes as a tear rolled down his face, "But she never fooled you." She wiped and kissed his tears.

Ana said seriously, "I have been trained all my life by the best and most intelligent military hardass kicking profiler in the whole fucking Marine Corp. Of course I can spot a sociopath or psychopath quicker than most. Don't worry, Christian baby, I'm here now and we can keep them away or deal with those types. We will deal with her and make sure it hurts worse than anything she ever did to you." He nodded and looked down. She was being so careful not to touch his chest and back. He kept his head down and took her hand putting it over his heart on his dress shirt. He had his eyes closed concentrating and wincing like he was doing a self body check for pain. He opened his eyes and looked up at her in shock. Ana scooted forward and captured his lips. She kissed him deeply with her other hand on the back of his neck rubbing her thumb on his cheek. He got lost in kissing her and picked her up putting her in his lap as she freely for the first time touched his body uninhibited.

He said after breaking the kiss and with his head turned and eyes down, "I think I might be falling in love with you. I never felt this feeling before and I don't want you to go away."

She put her fingers on his chin while turning his head and stroked his lips while looking deep in his eyes. He was so openly vulnerable and innocent looking right now like a little boy. He was admitting that to her but waiting for her rejection. It was breaking her heart how precious his trust was to give to her after the situation broke the trust from Elena. He was just coming out from realizing it. But, for him to tell her that he was falling in love with her too after being shut down for years was a complete breakthrough with the trust he gave to her. Ana refused to ever hurt him. She couldn't.

Ana said softly while looking at and caressing his lips, "Christian, baby, I'm not going anywhere without you. You're going through changes by leaps and bounds since the weekend. Give it some time to catch up and you will figure it all out. I and your shrink will help you. If you're trusting me, I know it is the most precious gift you will ever give me, baby. I would never betray that. If it's love you are feeling for me, you'll know for sure with a little time. I'm not going anywhere. I'll wait until you're sure."

He was so overwhelmed with such strange and deep feelings concerning her. She was being so gentle and kind, touching, kissing, calling him baby and being understanding with him. She was making him feel safe with her. She said she would stay and let him figure out everything he was feeling with no rejection. He needed Flynn immediately, but he wanted to be with her right now at this moment. She was comforting and making him feel better.

Ana said smiling, "Let me warm up our food and we can talk and eat something." She caressed his face and kissed him. He helped her stand up from off his lap. He smiled watching her taking their food to warm it up in the little kitchenette that Andrea and Olivia use.

As Ana was coming out of the kitchenette and going back to Christian's office, Olivia stepped in front of her trying to be intimidating. Olivia said arrogantly, "You think you are special. He'll get sick of you quick enough and I'll still be here."

Ana looked her up and down with an eyebrow raised. She said indifferently, "Uh huh… Will you get out of the way now, so I can get him his food?" Andrea came off the elevator and saw Olivia up in Ana's face being a bitch.

Andrea shouted angrily, "Olivia! What the hell is wrong with you?! Get the hell away from her and leave her alone! I'm done covering your mistakes and your stupid obsession with Mr Grey! You're fired!" Christian heard this outside his door.

Olivia said snottily, "You can't do that! I'm the Senator's daughter! Only Mr Grey can!" She stuck her nose in the air. Christian flung open the door with a bang. He was pissed off.

Andrea snapped, "Bullshit! You have been the worst assistant PA and I want you to collect your things and go!"

Christian said with authority, "You heard her! She fired you! Get the fuck out of my building! HR will contact you." Olivia started grabbing everything, even stacks of files and putting them in her bag. Christian snatched her bags out of her hands and was going through them. He found ten files, the ones she just grabbed and passwords written down.

Christian shouted, "Andrea, get Taylor, Now!" Andrea called Taylor.

Olivia tried to make a run for it. Christian grabbed for her, but missed. Ana saw it coming way ahead of them. She was out of her shoes and food sat on the table in the waiting area already. Ana dove and tackled her face down with both arms caught behind her back. She was sitting on her butt as the nasty little prissy bitch swore like a sailor, spitting and biting. Olivia started screaming like a high pitched banshee ear piercing sound. Everyone was coming out to see what the hell was going on in the corridor.

Ana slapped her hard in the mouth with one hand holding her arms like a vise. She would try screaming again and the slap in the mouth got even harder.

Ana said calmly, "Listen skank, if you don't shut your goddamn mouth, I'll stuff my used panties in that nasty mouth of yours. Do it again, please bitch, I fucking dare you? It will be worth tearing them off from under my dress. You can fucking believe I will do it too." Sawyer and Taylor came off the elevator. Olivia was in a rage, inhaled and blood curdle screamed not believing her. There was a sound of a tearing of fabric, then silence.

As Ana stuffed them in her mouth avoiding getting bit, she yelled, "I fucking warned you, bitch!"

Christian and Andrea stood there in complete shock with their mouths open. He looked around but started to chuckle when he saw Roz about to lose her shit. She did, falling to the floor laughing her ass off in her pantsuit and heels. She was hitting the ground with her palm. Several others around were cracking up, including Sawyer turning around with his hand on the wall. Taylor was grinning but maintained control.

He said, walking over to Ana and putting cable ties on Olivia's wrists, "I'll take care of her… Ah… Can you… ah…"

Ana started laughing and said, "Sure, no problem." She got up and took her panties out of Olivia's mouth.

Olivia started screaming, "I'm going to sue you for this! She put her panties in my mouth! It's unsanitary!" A loud sound of laughter was heard everywhere in the corridor. Poor Andrea was sitting in the waiting area with her head down laughing.

Roz stood up and walked over to Ana and said trying hard not to laugh, "Can I have those? I wanna frame them. I never want to forget today. I'll always get a smile when I see those." She cracks up again. Ana shrugged smirking and held it with two fingers by the beige satin elastic strap for the hip.

Christian walked up and snatched her panties from her fingers putting them in his suit pocket and said, "No fucking way, Roz! Those are my girl's panties. I'm framing them for my office."

Roz shrugged laughing and said, "Well someone needs to frame them. Their fucking priceless." Roz waved her hand in the air and walked back into her office shaking her head.

Christian took Ana by the elbow and ushered her into his office and closed the door. He pinned her up against the door with his pelvis against her and his cock hard as a rock. He said softly smirking, "You are the most outrageous woman I've ever known. I'm so fucking turned on by you right now. I want you so badly. That was the fucking funniest thing I've ever seen in my life." Ana smirked.

He wrapped his arms around her with his hand sliding over her ass and kissed her like he's never kissed anyone before with every ounce of desire he felt for her. She was getting turned on too, wrapping him freely in her arms. She broke the kiss panting hard. He was panting, kissing, open-mouth licking her throat and tops of her breasts. She was moaning and he was groaning. She was getting wet between her thighs. There was a knock on the door. He pulled Ana into the room to stand in front of him holding her hips to hide his bulge. She felt it the whole time and now it was by her butt.

Christian said, "Come in!"