HI EVERYONE.

THIS IS JUST A SHORT STORY. I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON LOADS BUT I WRITE A LITTLE BIT FOR EACH AND THIS IS THE FIRST ONE I HAVE FINISHED.

ITS A 6 CHAPTER SHORT STORY. THERE ARE A FEW THINGS DIFFERENT THAN THEIR BACKGROUNDS IN THE BOOKS.

THERE IS NO ANGST. THIS IS A FUN FLUFF STORY WITH A HEA.

MY NEXT ONE HOWEVER IS A SHADE DARKER ;)...

CHEERS

GG89 XOXO

Christians POV

"You can not be serious? Dad, this is a fucking joke, right?"

"Christian, calm down. This is no joke and I have looked again and again and there is nothing I can do. Your grandfather was an excellent lawyer in his day and this thing is ironclad" He throws the contract down on my desk and then helps himself to a drop of my prized Brandy.

I start to pace my office while gripping my hair. I can't believe my grandfather did this to me. What on earth was he thinking?

When I was 19 and decided that I wanted to drop out of Harvard my grandfather was one of my only supporters. He gave me one hundred thousand dollars to help me start GEH and he has been my top adviser ever since. This is why his betrayal hurts so much.

My grandfather Theodore was a brilliant man, no doubt about that. In his twenty's and thirty's he made some brilliant investments and one of those investments was a two hundred acre plot of land not far from the docks of Seattle. When I first started GEH I had this vision of building a massive ship yard so that GEH could compete in the shipping industry. My grandfather promised me that he would leave me that plot of land in his Will. I had offered to buy it from him many times but he was always adamant that he would leave it to me on his death bed. Now I know why. I can have the land but there are strings attached. Big fucking strings. The biggest string of all being one Anastasia Rose Steele.

My blood pressure rises just thinking about her. I have never known a more annoying, argumentative, stubborn person in my life!

She grew up down the street from my grandparents and she bonded with my grandmother over her love of books. My grandmother owned Seattle Independent Publishing and As soon as she graduated College, Anastasia started working there. By that time SIP was under the GEH umbrella because when my grandmother retired she wanted it kept in the family so I started looking after it and I appointed a CEO called Jerry Roach.

My grandmother died last year and it shocked me that she left her entire library of first edition books to Anastasia. I knew that my grandmother had been close to Anastasia but not almost half a million dollars in books close. SIP automatically went to my grandfather but I have been looking after it since my grandmother died.

Anastasia and me have never gotten along. I've known her since I was 15 and she was 13 and I just can not get on with her. Shes way to opinionated and frankly, bossy. I have a very dominate personality and it just does not bode well with her personality. We have always clashed so I have no idea why my grandfather would put this stipulation in his Will.

In his Will it stipulates that the only way for me to get my hands on that 200 acres is to move into my grandparents house on the sound with Anastasia for one year. At the end of that one year, I get those 200 acres and Anastasia gets SIP which he left to her in his Will but under stipulations.

If we do not agree to move into the house, which was willed to the both of us, for one year then the 200 acres is to be given to my direct competitor for free and SIP will be given to one of the bigger chain of publishing houses in the city.

Why on earth did my grandfather want us to live with each other? We will end up killing each other!

"Dad, there must be something. Anything to get me out of this? I do not want to live with that shrew for even a minute!"

"And What makes you think I want to live with the city's biggest asshole for a year?" I hear from behind me and when I turn I find Anastasia standing in the door way of my office with a man in a suit next to her.

She is wearing jeans and a black tee shirt and her hair is pulled in a ponytail. She looks about 15 in that outfit. It perplexes me how someone with her beauty could be such a stubborn, argumentative and downright annoying person?

"Miss Steele, did no one tell you that you need an appointment to enter my office?"

"Mr Grey, did you not listen to your assistant when she said you had a meeting with Cole Wentworth and his client? Cole is my lawyer and I am his client. We are here to see if we can sort this mess" She holds up her copy of my grandfathers will.

I motion for them to all follow me into my conference room and I take my seat at the head of the table.

After almost an hour of back and forth we come up with what we did to start with. There is no way to break this. If I want that land, which I do, I have to live with the shrew for one year and if she wants SIP then she has to also live with me.

My father stands up and buttons his jacket before addressing myself and Anastasia.

"It's only one year. The house on the sound is huge so you can each have a wing. You will probably never see each other. At the end of the year you both get what you want and then you can sell the house and split the money or if one of you wants to stay in the house then you can buy the other one out. I suggest that you move in as soon as possible because the one year starts from the day you both move in so the sooner you do it the sooner you can both get this done. Wentworth and I will go file all the necessary paperwork and leave you two to talk"

When its just Anastasia and myself left We both just glare at each other for almost a minute before I speak up.

"Look, I think we can both agree that this situation sucks but we are shit out of luck"

"Agreed"

"My father was right. The house is huge and if I take the West Wing and you take the East wing then we probably wont even see each other that much"

"Why do you think Theo did this? He knew that we didn't...See eye to eye"

"See eye to eye? We hate each other Anastasia lets just say it how it is"

"I don't hate you, Christian. I just think you're an Asshole of epic proportions"

"And I think you're a spoiled little bitch!" I hiss at her.

"Maybe I am but you're a cold harted bastard who has had a problem with me for the last 10 years! I am 23 years old and for 10 years, for some reason, you have just had it out for me"

"Don't be so dramatic! I have not had it out for you but I just have never met a more argumentative stubborn person in my life!"

"Then look in the God Dammed mirror and you might find one!"

We both stand up with our hands on the table and glare at each other.

"Look, lets just get on with this. I will have my stuff moved in tonight and like I said I will take the West wing. You keep to your side and I'll keep to mine"

"Fine by me!" With that she grabs her purse and storms out of the conference room.

God Damn it why did my grandfather do this to me!?

MEANWHILE AT A BAR ACROSS THE STREET FROM GEH

"Got to hand it to Theodore, he knew what he was doing, Didn't he Carrick?"

"He sure did, Cole. Those two may think they hate each other but when they are in a room together sparks fly. Theo saw it and so did Mary"

"Are you ever going to tell them that the contact is bullshit and they both already own it as soon as we sign?"

"Nope, what they don't know won't hurt them. My son and Ana both have great jobs, money in the bank and their health. What they don't have is that special someone but hopefully within the next year they will both pull their heads from their asses and give in to what the greater good wants and that's those two together"

Cole hold up his champagne glass and Carrick raises his.

"Here to a great plan which was thought up by a great man to make a great couple, Cheers"

"Cheers"