That night Ana spent without sleep. She just lay on the couch in Gray's living room and dozed. Closer to dawn, she heard quiet moans from Christian's room. Quietly getting up, she went to his room and lay down in his bed. Closing her eyes, she finally fell asleep, clinging to Gray.
In the morning, Christian woke up first. Seeing the sleeping Anastasia, he involuntarily smiled. She realized that he was feeling bad and that he was having nightmares again and came to him. An amazing girl... Brave and so vulnerable. He stroked her cheek.
If at first he just wanted to fuck her and beat the crap out of her, now he wanted to take care of her and be her protection and support.
However, he was afraid... Afraid to get carried away, afraid that he would hurt her with his past and secrets. After the death of his parents, he swore to himself: he would never have anything serious with women. But he had broken that oath three times, and all three times it had ended badly.
Could he try again? With Captain Steele?
Ana tossed and turned sleepily and opened her eyes.
-Hello,- the girl said.
-Good morning,- the man whispered and kissed her on the cheek. -Let's eat and then head to the station. Taylor and Welch found something on Jack's phone. Very important.
Ana quickly got up and ran to the shower. Would they finally have a lead?
After washing, Ana quickly got dressed. Christian had already prepared scrambled eggs and coffee. They ate together, maintaining silence.
-Thank you for not leaving me yesterday,- Ana finally said while washing the dishes.
-And thank you for being with me last night. But...- Christian looked down.
- You're not the one I need? - Ana asked sarcastically.
Instead of answering, Gray stepped towards her, took her face in his hands and gently kissed her cheek.
- Right now I'm not sure about that, - he admitted. Ana reached out to him, but he pulled away
- Let's talk about this later, okay? - he asked.
Anastasia nodded
In Barney the Sysadmin's office, Kate, Ana, Jose, Christian and Roach gathered. Barney, a cute guy who looked like Tom Holland, was quickly transferring something from Jack's phone to his laptop.
- It's good that your guys sorted everything into folders... But daddy Leila is interesting. She's light and she does such things with dildos and all sorts of vibrators, cool, - Barney giggled
- Fuck, Barney, be serious, - Kavanagh growled
- And you can't joke. Okay, I transferred the folder thing docs to the laptop. Now we'll see who he filmed there, - The guy clicked the mouse and a video appeared on the monitor.
In it, in the gateway, there was a fat unkempt man and a young red-haired girl. In the girl, Ana recognized Emma Stone, but in her interlocutor...
- Weinstein! What? Isn't he rotting in prison? Did we sleep through his escape? - Jose was amazed.
- I'll make a request for Harvey's biography and why he is free, - Kavanagh began to text someone.
Ana noticed a bracelet on Emma's hand in the form of a golden snake with emerald eyes.
- The bracelet was stolen from the Mit Gala Museum, - Jose also noticed it and immediately opened the catalog of stolen items on his iPhone.
- Thanks, Google, - Gray chuckled
Meanwhile, Barney turned on the sound on the video.
-Everything is going according to plan. The Light Ones don't even know what awaits them. It will all start on Halloween. Everyone will be distracted by the holiday, and we will start robbing and killing under the guise of prominent Light Ones, - Stone giggled.
-They will be accused of all mortal sins. Chaos and scandals will begin. The Light Ones will have to use magic against people to defend themselves. And during all this, the Academician will come to the fore and announce that the Dark Ones will protect people. These stupid idiots will trust him, and then... They will become our slaves, - Weinstein growled.
-And we will establish our own order, - the Witch licked her lips. -Slave auctions, concentration camps for the Light Ones, mass executions. We will take power into our own hands.
-But you know, there is someone who can hinder us. Anastasia Steele. The cop girl. The academic wants to kill her personally. But I found out that she has friends: Jack Hyde, Katherine Kavanagh and Jose Rodriguez. The academic will pay 10 million dollars for each of their heads. The hunt has begun, - Weinstein grinned.
The video ended here. Ana was in shock.
- We need to arrest Stone, - Roach said. - They will arrange a massacre on Halloween! We must get ahead of them!
- And we must learn magic! - Ana shouted. - I asked Jennifer to help.
Christian froze upon hearing this. No, Ana cannot become Light. Then she will put herself on the chessboard of the eternal war between Darkness and Light.
- Ana ... - Gray began
- Later, Christian ... Later ... - Ana ran out somewhere.
Christian clenched his teeth. Make her his own, tell her everything and come what may. He cares about her, he needs her. Yes, there is a chance that she will not accept all this, will reject him... But even if so, she will be alive. But he must protect her, come what may.