CHAPTER 20

Ana sat back looking at her, sizing her up. She smirked, leaning back into Christian's side. He was bracing for it, putting his arm around her back with his hand over her naked shoulder and caressing her neck waiting for it. She put her naked arm back with her elbow on the back of the chair as her garnet diamond bracelet glittered and sparkled on her wrist in the lighting. Ana's other hand was on his knee caressing it.

She smiled and responded confidently by moving her hand on the back of the chair, "I am the woman that can see right through you. The better question is why are you dressed like that and so desperate for attention from strangers who you don't even know?" Katherine was stunned and looked like a fish out of water with her mouth opening and closing trying to think of a come back response.

Her mother, Elaine, leaned over to her and said quietly, "I told you not to wear that dress because it was too revealing. Now see, you went and embarrassed yourself." Ana just about wanted to laugh, but just sat there looking stoically at how completely insecure and pathetic she really was under all of that arrogance and makeup. She waited for Katherine Kavanagh to respond or implode. The servers brought them their drinks.

Instead, she snapped back at her mother, "Shut up, mother!" She sat down in her chair glaring at Ana but not saying a thing.

After a while, they announced the dinner service after a brief introduction and thanking everyone for coming. Ana sat up as dinner was being served after lightly kissing Christian. Katherine kept throwing darts at her with her eyes. Ana really could care less and said nothing but ignored her deliberately.

After the dinner, Christian said, "Come walk around with me and we can go look at the auction and silent auction prizes, baby." She smiled, took his hand and they both took their wine glasses with them.

She walked around holding on to his arm casually as they went into the other room and they were looking at the items on the two tables being presented. There were vacation destinations, spa packages from the Four Seasons Hotel, they had private chef dinners at exclusive restaurants like Altura, Aerlume and Copine, signed sports and movie memorabilia, a few sports packages, gift bags and gift baskets for Saks, Nieman Markus, Nordstrom, Louis Vuitton and Gucci, ect.

Christian put in bids on the three restaurant packages and that were silent auctions. Ana put in a bid on one of the spa packages for three. She would invite Mia and Grace to the Four Seasons. She also bid on the Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Neiman Marcus gift bag and baskets. They walked around finishing their wine from dinner. Christian took her out on to the dance floor spinning her around and holding her intimately as he danced with her. They made a striking couple.

Ana said softly to him, "You're so graceful. I love dancing with you, baby." He smiled and kissed her. Everyone had their phones out taking shots of them.

When the auction started, they sat back because theirs were silent auctions and announced at the end. Christian got two of the special dinners and Ana got a couple of the baskets, the Neiman Marcus and Gucci ones. Ana went up each time and collected her prizes. Reynolds came and took them to the car for her. She smiled and thanked him.

After the auction, Ana went to the bathroom. She went into the stall and peed and was standing at the sink washing her hands. She felt it before she saw it shaking off the water on her hands quickly. She casually took her small 9mm handgun out of her holster on her cleavage holding it down at her hip. She turned and saw a young woman next to her in the semi crowded bathroom. She had dark hair and was in a dark blue cocktail dress.

She said with disdain in her voice, "Mistress said you are after my Master's money, trying to take over his business and after his name. She told us all that you are trying to harm our Master and you must be dealt with." Ana thought, 'If the male sub didn't work, fucking Elena went to try the ex-subs. This bitch is going to have to be ended, or this shit and every woman he ever slept with will be on my ass.'

Ana clicked on the record button on her phone in her crossbody purse open at her waist and turned to find the woman had a gun pointed at her at point blank range.

Ana asked dryly, "Your Mistress? Are you talking about Elena Lincoln?" The woman nodded slowly. She could sense this woman was a bit unhinged and unstable in an obsessive sub mode.

Ana said, nodding, "I see. I bet you didn't know that she molested twelve children in her basement. I also bet you didn't know she stole twenty one and a half million dollars from him in over seven years. I bet you also didn't know that running her sub supplying business out of the back door of her salons was completely illegal, to charge you subs and the Doms too. I know you don't know that I have $300 million of my own money in the bank and do not need his money. Yes, I just got a job at his company before we just started dating, like a few weeks ago. Elena Lincoln set Marty her sub on me, it didn't work because he understood all of this and went his own way staying away from her after. She is trying to get you in trouble like him by sending you after me to do her own dirty work. She has done so much illegal stuff she is not getting out of prison for the rest of her life. She sent you after me because all she wants is revenge, to get you in trouble for it and will tell you any lie she can to get you to do her bidding for her. Your master will not take you back. You should already know this from the NDA you signed and the contract. You're not supposed to contact him in any way ever again and that includes me. You are starting to get in trouble already by even approaching me."

The woman was getting upset and said growling, "Shut up. Shut up. Shut up! He will take me back! Mistress said I was his favorite. She said he was starving for release. She said you are hurting him and can never satisfy his needs."

Ana said seriously, "You believed her, wow, she lied her ass off to you. She would tell anyone they were his favorite if it got you to do something for her. He stopped getting subs from her six months ago. If you are so informed by her, didn't she tell you this? He is not in the lifestyle anymore and that took her control of him away. That's why she is so mad about it, because she has no more control of him. Why would he be with me if he hadn't changed his lifestyle? Look girl, I'm an ex-CIA agent and you are getting in deep shit with the federal authorities by threatening me with a gun. I have my gun pointed at your head right at this moment and I am a marksman dead shot. So, give me the gun and walk out of here. Believe me, you will be dead or in jail in about two minutes from now if you don't." The woman was biting her bottom lips in a nervous unconscious reaction of stress. Her hand was shaking holding the gun. Ana awaited her decision.

Ana asked her calmly, "What is your name?"

The woman said, "Leila. What have you got that I don't?"

Ana said flatly, "His heart." What happened next, all occurred so fast. Leila flew into a rage and Ana saw change in her eyes. Leila backed up and pointed the gun at her straight out in front of her. The other women in the bathroom panicked and raced to the door to exit. Ana took aim from her hip and shot the gun out of her hand while moving as fast as lightning to get out of the kill shot. Leila dropped the gun as it slid across the floor and Ana jumped her knocking her to the ground as she screamed out over and over again in a blind rage. Ana tossed her gun, wrestled with her and flipped her on her stomach. She pinning Leila's arms behind her back while sitting on her butt.

Leila screamed in an out of control fit, "I'll fucking kill you! I'll fucking kill you! How dare you love him! He is mine! Mine! Mine!"

Taylor and Sawyer ame flying through the bathroom doors with other security following. Taylor said sternly as Leila kept screaming, "The cops have been called already…. They should be here soon since it's a high profile event… Are you ok, Ana?"

Ana nodded and said, "Got a cable tie or two?" Taylor knelt down and secured Leila with two cable ties being she was absolutely going nuts.

Ana said to Sawyer, "Get me some paper towels and wet half of them!" He did and gave them to her. She took some of the wet paper towels, rolled them in a ball and shoved them in Leila's mouth to shut her up. She started cleaning Leila's hand that was shot and bleeding everywhere. She took the dry towels and applied pressure on her hand knowing it hurt when Leila grunted.

The event security came up to them and said with authority, "We will take over now. Get out of the way!" Ana looked at him like ice could freeze on his ass.

She said snarling, "Being that we have disarmed, apprehended and restrained the assailant, now you want to take over to get credit for the apprehension? Are you shitting me?! Go to hell, you jerk off!" The man stood there glaring at her. She couldn't believe he just expected her to hand over Leila.

Next she heard shouting and a struggle going on. A man shouted,"You're not to enter the crime scene!"

She heard Christian scream, "Like hell I'm not. My girlfriend is in there!"

The man shouted, "Keep back! There had been a shooting!"

She heard Christian go into a through meltdown and screamed, "Get the fuck out of my way or I'll rip a hole through you!"

Ana said to Taylor, "Go calm him down and tell him I'm fine and to call Carrick." Taylor nodded and went outside of the bathroom before Christian could make good on his promise.

Sawyer asked her, "You know she's his ex right?" She nodded.

Ana said quietly, "Elena set her on me from jail. She is completely unstable mentally. I tried to use reason. As you can see it didn't work." Ana clicked off the recording and went back before Sawyer asked her anything and erased it and saved the recording. Ana wiped the blood from her hands on a couple wet paper towels Sawyer got for her.

The cops and EMS made the security hotel guys get out of the bathroom. The EMS and cops took custody of Leila. Ana got off of her and started giving a statement to the one cop and had him collect the guns. She told him of the conversation recorded on her phone she had. They went out of the bathroom and Ana noticed she didn't even have a speck of blood on her which surprised her.

Christian ran up to her and wrapped her in his arms saying, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry, baby. It's all my fault."

She put her hand in his hair at the back of his neck with her other arm wrapped around his back rubbing him. Ana said, "Hush, it was Elena who did it and nobody else. It is not your fault, baby. She was doing it from jail. It's ok and I'm ok, Christian, my darling. She has been in contact with the exes. You're going to have to deal with that. I'll make sure she gets her phone and visitations monitored."

The cops approached them and said, "Come with us to the precinct, please." They all followed them. Taylor drove everyone and Christian called his father to meet them there.

Ana surrendered a copy of the recording to the police and they listened to it with Carrick and Christian in the room. They realized Elena Lincoln was sending people to kill Anastasia Steele, an ex-CIA retired specialist. All Elena Lincoln's privileges were immediately reported to be taken away. They told Ana she may need to testify in court. Once they got Leila out of the hospital, she would be set at no bail and put under psychiatric evaluation. Carrick said he would take the case for her and it should be quickly taken care of by the court. He said if she was proven unstable there might not be a trial anyway and at her hearing she would be sent to a prison mental institution for treatment.

The next day Kavanagh Media put out an exclusive report over the news and released to the tabloids that Christian Grey's girlfriend, Anastasia Steele, an ex-CIA operative, had shot a woman in the bathroom at a local charity event that was currently under investigation. To say it because a complete media circus caused by them would be an understatement. The investigating reporter of course was Katherine Kavanagh. She kept asking questions like, 'Does Anastasia Steele have a license to kill?', 'Did she try to murder the woman she shot for threatening her boyfriend?', 'Who does she think she is bringing a gun to a charity event in an exclusive hotel?', and ect. The paparazzi went absolutely crazy on them trying to go anywhere. They were at all entrances of Escala and GEH. They even camped outside his father and mother's home and his brother's condo. Tay

lor had to increase security for all of the Grey's including Christian and Ana.