CHAPTER 9

Ana had received a call from her contact Delmar to meet at a little cafe on 14th Street. Ana drove there and walked into the cafe with her trench coat, hoodie, sunglasses, tennis shoes and jeans on. She ordered a latte and sat in the back corner booth.

As she was slowly sipping her latte, a man with a baseball hat, a team jersey, jeans and a winter military khaki coat came in. He was carrying two large khaki duffle bags and a large black messenger bag on his shoulder as he walked in. He sat the bags down by her with her help in the booth. He walked over to the counter, got a coffee and took it back to the booth. Not a word was spoken between them.

The man finally said, "That bitch was grotesque. We vetted the tapes, photos and files. We will be returning the damning evidence to her house by tomorrow or Tuesday. I'll contact you when it's done. She needs to be incarcerated for the multiple children she has violated." Ana's stomach was turning.

Ana asked, "How many vic's to think?"

He said, "At least twelve minors so far. She has an active sub of age and a child in training. The books in the duffle bag is all you need to take her down completely. She was embezzling, exhortion, prostituting, racketeering, pedophilia and human trafficking. You deal with the financial business books and her password account book. The messenger bag is for your friend, the rest is jewelry, cash and important paperwork. Destroy the vile creature. Try to get the cash to the kids." Ana nodded.

Ana said, "Good job, Del. I'll take it from here."

Del said, "Anytime, Steele. It always feels good doing this kind of business together when we get to take out the trash. Here take this. It's scrubbed and has the sick shit on it to nail her with." He handed her a thumb drive, finished his coffee, stood up and walked out of the cafe.

After a little while, Ana stood up, put the messenger bag over her head across her body and picked up both duffle bags. They were super heavy. She walked out of the cafe to her car, put them in her trunk and got in the car driving to her condo at Premier on Pine.

Once Ana had got everything up to her apartment, she put it in her study/exercise room she converted from a bedroom. Ana started going through everything in the duffle bags with rubber gloves on. She split the things apart and filled the one duffle bag with the cash and jewelry. She went through everything else. She put the business books to the side and went through the password account book. She ran everything through her software and rerouted all accounts of money except her personal and salon business accounts. It went into a scrambled system of transfers and deposits that settled into an offshore account in Zürich, Switzerland that would total $27,589,433.21 once it settled within the next twenty eight days. The money was completely untraceable after that. She stuffed the cash and jewelry under her bed, until she could liquidate the jewelry and deposit the cash into a new separate account.

Ana boxed up the business books of the salons, the sub business and the BDSM clubs after going over them. After redressing, she called Christian to say that she was coming over. She took the messenger bag and the box with all of Elena's business books.

When Ana arrived, Christian was waiting for her. Christian said as she walked off the elevator, "You were right, she did exactly as you said she would." Ana smiled and nodded. They went and sat down on the couch with the fireplace burning.

Ana took off the messenger bag and handed it to him saying, "This belongs to you. I would burn the whole thing, if I were you." She sat down and took the lid off the box and pulled out a stack of the salon books. Christian sat next to her.

Ana said, "These are her real books on the salons, Christian. Give them to your auditors. Look here, it repeats throughout and increases as time goes by." She opened the books and pointed out places in various sections that were written out outrageously flagrant deductions to his account.

Christian was looking over the figures and getting pissed. Elena had been doing multiple things. Selling cheap products as expensive ones, buying cases of cheap wine to give her spa guests while reporting it as expensive. She skimmed money on all the expensess into deficits.

Ana said, pulling out another set of books on the BDSM clubs, "She has been using your loan money to pad her clubs too. The worst part is that she is running a prostitution business in New York out the backdoor of the clubs and in Seattle in her salons." Ana showed him the books and the prostitution books on the side.

Ana said, "These books show her charging wealthy clients $100,000 per sub and her charging the subs fees of $5,000 to procure them wealthy doms here in Seattle and New York." Christian was flipping through the books.

Ana said, "She has been embezzling, exhortioning, blackmailing, prostituting, racketeering, practicing pedophilia and human trafficking. You need to urgently get away and completely separate yourself from her now. I am giving you until Friday to sever all ties, Christian." He felt like he was going to be sick.

Christian whispered, hanging his head, "How many children?"

Ana said, "Rough estimate, twelve so far not including you." Christian hung shaking his head.

He said softly, "She said I was the only one. I was a special case."

She said softly patting his thigh, "She blatantly lied and has been lying the entire time she has known you. Are you finally done with all of this and do you believe me?" He nodded his head yes.

Christian asked, "Where do we go from here? I want her destroyed and away from my family."

Ana said, "You just get your business separated and away from her. You file embezzlement charges after and I will get her reported for the crimes she has committed through proper channels. She will never see the light of day."

He asked, "Will you show me how to have a real relationship?"

Ana said smiling, "One step at a time, Christian. Let's clean up the house this week and get rid of the trash first." He agreed. She kissed him goodbye.

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On Monday morning, Christian picked up Ana in front of her building lobby to go to work with him. She was wearing her black Versace sunglasses, a Donna Slayer's black mink faux fur long coat and her Louboutin Santigag 85 leather ankle boots with her black opaque winter hold up stockings. He couldn't see what she was wearing under her coat. She buckled in next to him in back of the SUV and they were off to GEH.

Christian was looking her over in her black fur and sexy little ankle boots. Her hair was up in a chignon hairstyle and she had smokey eyes and dark matte burgundy lipstick. He said, "You know wearing that dark lipstick is very tempting to me to mess it up for you today."

Ana replied, turning her head and smirking, "That's why I brought lip gloss too." He smiled and leaned over to kiss her.

Ana said softly to him looking at his mouth, "Ah, you want to get a head start, huh?" He grinned and kissed her. When they pulled into the parking space at GEH underground parking. She took out a tissue from her purse and wiped his lips off and fixed her mouth and lipstick in her compact mirror. He got out and took her hand helping her out. Ana had her purse and laptop case on her shoulder. They walked to the elevator to the lobby.

As they were walking across the lobby all of the people were whispering and watching them. Christian had his hand on her lower back as they approached the lobby desk. He said to the receptionist, "She needs a visitor pass."

Ana pulled out her driver's license and handed it to the girl with a smile. She filled out the paperwork and was handed a badge with a chain on it. He took her over to the private elevator and used his key. Taylor, Christian and Ana got inside. Christian stood behind her with his arm around her waist pulling her gently against his body. Taylor got off on the 15th floor.

Christian leaned in and kissed her neck making her smile at his not so subtle gestures. He took her hand and they walked off the elevator together.

He handed Andrea his coat and finished helping take off Ana's coat. He was surprised at the beautiful velvet mid length darker teal green bodycon dress that was long sleeves, a sweetheart neckline. Her jewelry was all onyx ovals in gold.

He handed Ana's coat to Andrea saying, "This is Anastasia Steele, she will be shadowing me all day. I want two coffees, one with two creams and sugar on the side."

Andrea said, "Yes, Mr Grey." She went to hand up their coats.

Christian took Ana by the hand and led her into his office. He went and sat down at his desk logging in his laptop. Ana was standing at his full windowed wall next to him looking out over the city.

She was amazed at the view from the 20th floor. Snow flurries were swirling around this high up making it hazy out. She watched the flakes dancing in front of her until a stronger wind would whisk them away.

She turned and looked at the rest of his office with the low glass tables and the two chairs in front of his desk. It had a bar in the corner and a glass table on that side of the room. Ana walked up to a wall with a table against it and a large framed picture of little tiny paintings in it. The items were ordinary items like scissors, windows, telephone and typewriter. All arranged in three dozen pictures to form one. She was amazed at the diversity of the items yet stepped back and looked at it from a distance. It all seemed to fit together rather nicely.

Ana walked over to another wall with a painting of two ships. It was foggy with two dark lonely ships from the eighteenth century sailing after dusk on a hazy sea just before the darkness closed in.

Ana watched the desk when the door opened and a timid young woman brought in two cups of coffee and said as she sat them on his desk, "Is there anything else, M…Mr Grey?"

He said brusquely, "Olivia, I want the Emerson Tech, Graves Industries and Blackwood Electronics files."

She said intimidated, "Y…Yes, sir." The girl darted out the door like a scared rabbit. Ana smirked to herself and thought, 'He is in his domain commanding respect from everyone here.'

Ana sauntered over to the desk and was making up her coffee while tossing the empty packets in the trash can next to his desk. She stirred her coffee, started walking back up to the window wall looking out and casually sipped her mug.

He was highly aware of Ana. He was watching her inspect everything in his office from his peripheral vision. He thought to himself, 'She had a striking figure of musculature, tone and grace as she moved around the room. Her demeanor was of a person studying their environment. I know she had a silent but commanding presence. I like it because I can feel her whenever she is around me like an electrical pulse reaching out to me. I wonder if ever a woman was built so strong, intelligent and perfectly feminine as she is?'

Christian asked, "Come look at this file on Harper Industries, Anastasia and tell me what you think of it for acquisition." He got up from his chair and she sat down scooting forward. He began looking out of the wall window and glanced at his watch.

After a few moments, she began typing on his calculator app on his laptop and clicking pages with his mouse. She brought up a word document and started typing very fast. He just stood there in silence and let her do her thing. He smiled listening to how very quickly she clickity-clacked on the keyboard.

Ana was opening and importing pieces of the file into the document. Her mind was in its own little world. She went from creating one page to the next so fast. Her mind was completely focused on her task. After eleven minutes passed, she saved the document, named the document and sent it to the printer by his desk. She stood up, walked around the desk and took the five pages off the printer. She stapled them together and put it on his desk. She sat down in the chair across from him and resumed sipping her coffee. He was smirking at her and turned sitting back down at his desk and took the document without a word said the entire time.

He began reading. She had completely done a complete breakdown analysis of the entire file. She first imported the graphics of the scales, pie charts and calculations showing in red the errors and in green the corrections. The last page was a complete analysis and recommendation.

He was in complete shock at what a thorough and clear evaluation she did in twelve minutes. He looked up at her in awe. Christian said, "I clocked you at twelve minutes. You recommended that I get the eight errors corrected and a negotiation bid range for acquisition."

Ana said smiling, "I could have provided a report on why the corporation's stock was devalued and the indications of faulty investment or mismanagement also if I had access to all of the research background data."

Roz knocked and walked in the office. She said looking at a paper, "Christian did you see the discrepancy on Emerson Tech?"

He said, "No but I got an analysis on Harper in twelve minutes flat."

Roz asked, "From where?" She looked up and saw an incredibly beautiful woman sitting drinking coffee with her legs crossed. She looked at Christian.

He said smirking, handing the document Ana made to Roz, "This is Miss Anastasia Steele, she has two bachelor's and two master's. She looked at the Harper spreadsheet and in twelve minutes created and printed this analysis."

Roz sat down in the other chair and was reading the document. Christian asked Ana, "How fast do you type?"

Ana giggled and said, "About 170 words a minute." He smiled nodding.

Roz, huffed. She said, "Eight errors? That's sloppy. I like the recorded pricing range. What are your degrees in?"

Ana said seriously, "I have two bachelor's in Econometrics and one in Statistics. I have two masters in Business Analytics and Business Administration. All have 4.0 to 4.2 GPA."

Christian said smirking, "She graduated with her two bachelor's at fifteen years old. She got her two masters six months ago. We lost touch six months ago, but I just got back in touch with her at my mother's Christmas party this past weekend. She is shadowing me all day today."

Roz said seriously to Ana, "I hope you go down to HR and fill out an application with a resume?"

Ana smiled and said, "Christian has already said he wants me to work here. I just didn't answer him yet. I think that is why he wanted me to come hangout with him at work today to convince me. I'll go to HR after lunch."

Roz said smiling, putting the document on Christian's desk, "Good. It's time for the department meeting." Roz turned and walked out of the office. Christian stood up and buttoned his suit jacket. He held out his hand to Ana. She smiled and took his hand. They walked out of the office closing the door.