Michael POV:

I confessed everything to my friends, Candice, Jason, Ryan, and Josh, I told them every little detail, even about Steve.

"How could you let yourself be manipulated by that man Michael!", yelled Josh.

"What's done is done, what worries me is what happens now", I say to them.

"Can't you just tell Christian this whole plan was Steve's?", asked Candice. 

"He has a restraining order against me and I'm afraid bringing Steve in this would only cause more problems, he's a man of many resources and a very very dangerous man, my life and yours would definitely be at risk, there's no doubt about it", I explain.

"Surely someone would believe you", says Jason. 

"If there's one thing I've learned from the past few months of spending time with Steve is that he's the biggest donator of money for the police system, thinking back on it now, I'm sure he did that to show me he wasn't a man to mess with and when I entered the apartment, my phone also lost service", I say to them.

"Do you think there's some way he could have done that?", asked Candice as a glass bottle came flying through the window.

"What the hell", I yell as the bottle rolled towards me.

"We are 3 stories up, how the hell could someone have thrown that up here", says Josh.

"There's a note inside it", I say as I take up the bottle.

.....

"YOU ARE DEAD MICHAEL" was what the note read. 

Immediately after another bottle was thrown in, this time it exploded setting fire to the curtains. Candice immediately got the extinguisher and she put it out. 

"What the hell's going on?", I cry as Josh's phone began ringing. 

"Looks like cell service is back", says Ryan.

"Hello", asked Josh.

He had a worried look on his face.

"It's Leo, Michael, you're trending on Twitter", says Josh. 

I immediately log in to Twitter as I see my name, number 1 on trending!

"Christian Grey's fanbase is tearing you to shreds", says Josh as I read the tweets.

He was right, Christian fans all over the world are wishing for my death and tearing me apart online, after another look, I had gained 750,000 new followers. What the hell is going on!

"The fanbase hates you", says Ryan. 

I drop the phone to the floor and ran into my room, locking the door, falling to the floor, and bawling my eyes out. I am ruined. 

....

The next day/day of the court case.

"Let's head out to eat", says Candice. 

"Yeah I need to get out of here", I sigh. 

I head downstairs to see about 30 reporters waiting for me, all yelling and asking me for a comment. 

"Let's run through the back", whispered Candice.

We finally made our way outside as we headed to her car and drove out.

"You became overnight famous Michael", says Candice. 

"All for the wrong reasons", I sighed. 

.....

We exit the car as we walked over to the cafe.

I then heard a man scream, "Fuck you, Michael!". 

All I remember was three eggs hitting my face as I fall to the ground. Both Candice and I were egged as everyone recorded. 

"Please stop", I say in tears as Candice picked me up.

"We hope you die you piece of shit!", yelled another man.

"Please stop it", I begged as a man punched me so hard I flew back. 

The sounds of sirens were heard as I blacked out. 

....

I awoke to find myself on the couch in the apartment with Candice standing over me. My eye throbbed. 

"Hey Mikey", she said. 

"My eye", I say crying out.

"You got a black eye, you were saved by the police, they escorted us home", said Candice.

"This isn't going to stop is it?", I cry.

"I'm afraid not", said a woman as she entered the room.

"Who's this?", I ask.

"I'm Derri, I'm the lawyer that will be representing you today, seeing that it was so last , minute, I was called to represent you", she says.

"What are my odds?", I ask.

"In all likeliness, you'll have to pay a fee", she says as my phone started ringing.

"Hello is this Mr. Michael Reyes?", asked the woman.

"Yes, this is him", I say.

"Mr. Reyes, my name is Mrs. Franter, District Manager of Republic One bank, I'm afraid there has been some suspicious activity, all of your money is gone, it would seem someone erased your existence from our server, we will get to the bottom of this so please bear with us, we're just as shocked as you", she says as I hang up the phone I'm pure shock.

"What's wrong?", asked Candice. 

"Someone hacked my bank and now all my money is gone.... you said I had to pay a fee right?", I say as I look to the lawyer as I immediately starting to panic. 

"Yes", she gulped.

"What if I can't?", I ask.

"Jail", she says as my heart skipped a beat. 

.....

2 PM, Court of Justice, Downtown Seattle. 

I was completely out of it for that whole case, my mind was in pure shock that I couldn't even focus properly, my lawyer kept having to hit my hand every time the judge asked me a question.  The only thing I could remember was.

"Michael Grey, you are guilty of Character Defamation and will there pay a fee of $700,000 to Grey Enterprises", said the judge as she banged her gavel. 

I was told after by my lawyer, I was lucky to have gotten such a low fee, after the news today broke, the novel painted Christian as an S&M womanizer, his company lost 5.8 million dollars and lost a chunk of its clients. News broke earlier that sent everything into a downward spiral. 

News Headline~ 7 women break their silence out about Christian Grey and the Contract. 

I stand outside the building as the rain hits my face. Everything now has certainly gotten much much worse.

~To be Continued in Chapter 16: The Party~