I only own the plot
CPOV
The 2 block walk goes by a lot quicker than I wanted it to, but now that we are here I know that this is a better place to talk. I want to tell Anastasia all of my life secrets. I never thought that I would want to spill my guts to another person, but I know that this is right. She is right. I never believed the lies Elena told me. That I am not capable of love. I've just never had the right person to love. I feel as if my family loves me to a degree. At least my mom does. My saint. I suspect my other family members are only proud of what I accomplished.
Ana snaps me out of my thoughts by grabbing my arm and towing me to a booth. There's that warmth I felt when we ran into me. We sit in comfortable silence as we look over the menu trying to decide what we both want to eat.
"So Mr. Christian, what do you fancy on the menu?", her soothing voice breaks the silence.
"How about I let you pick for me. I am not picky and I am not allergic to anything," I tell her after a brief thought.
"I'll just order you my regular," she says with a firm nod.
"So Anastasia, what do you do for a living," I ask after the waitress leaves us alone.
"You didn't even see that did you?!" She says belly laughing. My God she's so beautiful.
"Notice what," I look around to see what she is talking about and I see the waitress is smirking at me from behind the counter. I quickly look away back to my beauty. "Doesn't matter. I'm only looking at you. So back to my question. What do you do for a living?"
She looks a little startled by my admission, but starts talking anyway. "I own a company. Essentially, we are the people that write media releases for big companies. I wanted to go into publishing books, but I feel as if this is a better path for me. I can do this from all over the world." She looks down shyly after talking about her career.
Fuck, she works for the media?! Can I trust her? Looking at her beautiful blue-green eyes, I know I can.
"I am not going to lie and pretend I do not know who you are, but I want you to know whatever you say will stay between us forever." She looks at me so sincerely that I know what she says is true, even though I had already made up my mind.
"I believe you. I have no doubts my secrets are safe with you." I give her a shy smile because let's be honest. I am on a date with my beauty and I am a little nervous.
The waitress comes and drops off our food, lingering a little too long for my liking.
"Beauty did you need something else, or can this young lady leave?", I say looking directly at Anastasia. She stares at me and I realize what I just called her. Fuck me, she's going to run away from me before she even knows me. Way to go Grey.
She sticks out her tongue to wet her lips before answering, "No baby. Thank you for asking." She proceeds to pick up her burger and take a huge bite as the waitress walks away huffing. My dick is twitching in my pants right now.
I take a deep breath before I start my explanation, but before I could even open my mouth to apologize, my Beauty cuts me off.
"Relax Christian. It's ok baby. Eat your food" she goes back to eating her food as if nothing happened.
After that, lunch goes by smoothly and before I know it Jason is walking up to me to tell me we have to get back to the office for my 4pm meeting. I look down at my watch Mia got me for Christmas and holy shit! We've been sitting here for hours talking and getting to know each other. I have learned that Ana is 23 and single. She's from Seattle and her father also lives here. She just came back from Paris and is in town to visit her Seattle office. She hasn't spoken to her mother since she was 14 after an incident that she didn't go too deep into.
"Um, I am actually your 4pm. It is under the name Jose Rodriguez, but I decided to take this meeting since I was in town. I never work from the office, but I decided to pop in today," my Beauty is looking at us sheepishly. "I promise I did not run into you on purpose. I was coming to put up my lunch and then drop the release off at your office before going to see my father." She quickly rambles on.
"Beauty, calm down. It's ok. I know you would never do anything like that." I give her a gently smile to let her know I mean every word. She gives me a bright smile back. "Can you forward the release to my COO Ros Bailey? I want to spend more time with you. Getting to know you." I ask gently, afraid that she is going to reject me.
"Of course! I want to spend more time with you as well. After I forward this email, will you come with me back to my place to talk more privately? The waitress hasn't stopped eavesdropping since we came in," She asks as she is looking down at her phone to send the email. "That's why I haven't asked you anything too personal besides the basics. I know you are a private person."
Wow. My mind is completely blown right now. How is she already so considerate of me?
"Of course I will go with you. Let me pay for our lunch and we can be on our way." I stand to go to the counter and I notice Jason walking with me. Once we are out of earshot of Anastasia, Jason turns to me. "Sir, I am glad you found a nice friend, but I do not think it is best you go with her to her home. We do not know the security risks there," he says with a sigh because he already knows that I am going to disagree. But before I could even open my mouth, a guy that was sitting a few tables away from us walks up to us and starts speaking.
"Look if it makes any difference, I take care of Miss Steele's security Taylor. You have nothing to worry about." The guy says with a kind of cheeky smile. Jason looks stunned to see this man.
"Sawyer? You work for Miss Steele? Is that why you wouldn't come work for me under Mr. Grey?" Jason starts firing off questions.
"Yup!" This guy, Sawyer says, while smiling at Jason.
"Well, you seem like you have everything covered. I will be going back with Anastasia."
After paying our bill and leaving a tip, I walk back over to my Beauty who is standing with Jason and Sawyer.
"Everything good to go? And I see you met Sawyer," my Beauty says as I approach.
"Yup and yup! You ready to go?" I question because I am ready to tell her my life story. I am ready to get it over with, so we can move forward. Hopefully. I pray she doesn't think any different of me. I want everything with this woman. I hope she feels the same.
"Hey, look at me," she says and I bring my eyes to hers. "Whatever you are thinking, stop it. I feel it too. I'm here. Always." She brings her lips to mine and my heart explodes. I kiss her with everything I have. Everything that I am.
"EW! I am so telling dad," I hear Sawyer scream and huff in the background. Dad? Ana pulls away from me and gives me a beautiful smile before turning to glare at Sawyer.
"You do that and I rat you out for senior year!" Ana says as she crosses her arms over her chest. Sawyer gasps, "You wouldn't dare!"
"Try me," Ana says as she turns around to look back at me. "You ready to go? We can walk back to my office to take my SUV"
I nod my head and Jason looks as shocked as I do to find out they are siblings of some kind siblings. My beauty grabs my hand and pulls me forward out of the restaurant.
Time to tell my truth.
