Fifty Shades Trilogy 02 - Fifty Shades Darker

my work.
    I really want to go to this conference.
    I shouldn’t have to ask you.
    I have deleted the offending e-mail.

    Anastasia Steele
    Assistant to Jack Hyde, Commissioning Editor, SIP

    From:  Christian Grey
    Subject:  What have you done?
    Date:  June 13, 2011 10:46
    To:  Anastasia Steele

    I am just protecting what is mine.
    The e-mail that you so rashly sent is wiped from the SIP server now, as are my e-mails to you.
    Incidentally, I trust you implicitly. It’s him I don’t trust.

    Christian Grey
    CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc.

    I check to see if I still have his e-mails, and they have disappeared. This man’s influence knows no bounds. How does he do this? Who does he know that can stealthily delve into the depths of SIP’s servers and remove e-mails? I am so out of my league here.

    From:  Anastasia Steele
    Subject:  Grown Up
    Date:  June 13, 2011 10:43
    To:  Christian Grey

    Christian
    I don’t need protecting from my own boss.
    He may make a pass at me, but I shall say no.
    You cannot interfere. It’s wrong and controlling on so many levels.

    Anastasia Steele
    Assistant to Jack Hyde, Commissioning Editor, SIP

    From:  Christian Grey
    Subject:  The Answer is NO
    Date:  June 13, 2011 10.50
    To:  Anastasia Steele

    Ana
    I have seen how “effective” you are at fighting off unwanted attention. I remember that’s how I had the pleasure of spending my first night with you. At least the photographer has feelings for you. The sleazeball, on the other hand, does not. He is a serial philanderer, and he will try to seduce you. Ask him what happened to his previous PA and the one before that.
    I don’t want to fight about this.
    If you want to go to New York, I’ll take you. We can go this weekend. I have an apartment there.

    Christian Grey
    CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc.

    Oh, Christian ! That’s not the point. He’s so damn frustrating. And of course he has an apartment there. Where else does he own property? Trust him to bring up José. Will I ever live that down? I was drunk, for heaven’s sake. I wouldn’t get drunk with Jack.  
    I shake my head at the screen, but figure I cannot continue to argue with him over e-mail. I shall have to bide my time until this evening. I check the clock. Jack is still not back from his meeting with Jerry, and I need to deal with Elena. I read her e-mail again and decide that the best way to handle it is to send it to Christian. Let him concentrate on her rather than me.

    From:  Anastasia Steele
    Subject:  FW Lunch date or Irritating Baggage
    Date:  June 13, 2011 11:15
    To:  Christian Grey

    Christian
    While you have been busy interfering in my career and saving your ass from my careless missives, I received the following e-mail from Mrs. Lincoln. I really don’t want to meet with her—even if I did, I am not allowed to leave this building. How she got hold of my e-mail address, I don’t know. What would you suggest I do? Her e-mail is below:

    Dear Anastasia, I would really like to have lunch with you. I think we got off on the wrong foot, and I’d like to make that right. Are you free sometime this week?
    Elena Lincoln

    Anastasia Steele
    Assistant to Jack Hyde, Commissioning Editor, SIP

    From:  Christian Grey
    Subject:  Irritating Baggage
    Date:  June 13, 2011 11:23
    To:  Anastasia Steele

    Don’t be mad at me. I have your best interests at heart.
    If anything happened to you, I would never forgive myself.
    I’ll deal with Mrs. Lincoln.

    Christian Grey
    CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc.

    From:  Anastasia Steele
    Subject:  Laters
    Date:  June 13, 2011: 11:32
    To:  Christian Grey

    Can we please discuss this tonight?
    I am trying to work, and your continued interference is very distracting.

    Anastasia Steele
    Assistant to Jack Hyde, Commissioning Editor, SIP

    Jack returns after midday and tells me that New York is off for me though he is still going and there’s nothing he can do to change senior management policy. He strides into his office, slamming the door, obviously furious. Why is he so angry?  
    Deep down, I know his intentions are less than honorable, but I am sure I can deal with him, and I wonder what Christian knows about Jack’s previous PAs. I park these thoughts and continue with some work, but resolve to try to make Christian change his mind, though the prospects are bleak.
    At one o’clock, Jack pokes his head out of the office door.
    “Ana, please could you go and get me some