Summary

In Chapter 15, Christian holds Ana, pleading with her not to cry. They sleep in the same bed, with Christian holding her. Ana wakes around three a.m. She is hot and thirsty. She goes to the kitchen for juice and spends a few minutes thinking. She rushes back to the bedroom when she hears Christian screaming. She wakes him from the nightmare. He is upset, repeating that she had left him. Ana explains where she was, and their embrace turns passionate. Abruptly, Ana remembers Christian saying that all his submissives look like his biological mother. She tells him to stop. He does, and then allows her to touch him. She asks about his nightmares, and why he hates to be touched. He talks about his early childhood, which was filled with physical abuse. His biological mother's pimp sometimes put cigarettes out on Christian's...