Christian's Yearning

CH08

~ Of nightmares and reality ~

"Mrs. Martinez …" Christian starts "… if I ever ask you for tea, I need you to make hot Twinings English Breakfast tea, black and weak"

"Yes, Sir" and she carefully writes Twinings English Breakfast tea in her grocery list all the while thinking odd he is rarely in NY and now he has me buying tea?

Christian continues his breakfast and reading the alerts about 'Ana Steele Model.' There are a few about last night’s reveal as the female model for CK-Costa. Also, there are a few other stories about her in some after party. One has a picture of her and David at a restaurant smiling at each other; with the caption ‘David's new love interest?’ Christian hits the back button immediately, he runs his hands on his hair, and closes his eyes.

- Has she moved on? … It looks that way, Grey, or at least she is giving it a try.

- Have I been replaced? …  In the scheme of things, two weeks do not mean much, a small speck of time that’s all, Grey!

- Is he good to her? ... She is smiling, with us she cried most of the time.

- Am I too late? …We can handle a little competition, can’t we?

He opens his eyes and sees the newly released advertisements the first is a head shot. She has a coy smile, her face tilted down a little, and she is looking up through her eyelashes. Her hair is pulled back on a high pony tail with bangs over her forehead. He runs his finger along her face and for an instant he feels her chin under his hand as he raises her chin up to him.

- shit, I have it bad!

Christian clicks on the next advertisement; it is a page titled "Her playtime" with a picture of Anastasia in a beautiful blue gown that matches her eyes. David is facing her with his back to the camera completely naked.

 - He must have his junk covered, right! …It doesn’t look like it.

- Boy he has muscles, wonder how often he works out? ... I got muscles.

- You are not a model, Grey…. I can be if that is what it takes.

- Do you seriously see yourself standing around smiling for a camera, doing what you are told? …No.

- We could buy the company and make that idiot put some clothes on though.

The words 'HER BOY TOY' are written at the bottom of the page in large black letters. The next full page is titled "His playtime' with a picture of David in a tuxedo. Anastasia is wearing a black leather jacket which is almost off, down her bare shoulders, leaving a white sexy bra as her only top. She is sexily on top of a silver Austin Martin DB5; her right foot has a high heel shoe dangling from her big toe and her left shoe is completely on. Her knee is bent and close to her chest, and her head thrown back smiling at a private joke. She looks hot!

The text underneath says "HIS TOYS." The text is in white letters. Then, there is a final page, with neutral faces of babies, girls, boys, women, men, teens and tweens with "NOT TOYS" in red letters written across the top and bottom of the page; with smaller latters right bellow 'say NO to abuse'.

- 'Fuck, fuck' it is as if she is talking to him. There is a picture of a copper headed boy with grey eyes. It could be a fifteen year old version of himself, in a corner almost hidden among the others…. Fuck! I must be reading too much into this there are blonds, brunettes, red heads and everything in between…

After a few minutes, he moves on to the next article which has Christian in need to punch yet another door. The title reads: "They are just like us." It is a sequence of four pictures forming a square. The first one has a caption of "they make funny faces at each other."  It is a close up of Anastasia rolling her eyes and David making fish faces at her. The picture to the right is of Ana wearing David’s coat as they walk in the city; the caption reads "they forget their coats and get cold."