As EL James writes a new version of her erotic thriller, this time told from the viewpoint of Christian Grey, we imagine how the first chapter might go
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey Photo: Film Stills
The Telegraph - 04 Jun 2015
On my white leather chair by my modern dark wood desk beside my floor-to-ceiling window next to my million-dollar artworks on my white sandstone walls perpendicular to my white sandstone floor in my tastefully understated office on the nine hundredth storey of the opulent headquarters of my trillion-dollar global enterprise, I – enigmatic entrepreneur Christian Grey, CEO and founder of the Christian Grey Group Corporation Enterprises Holdings Company plc Ltd Inc – reflect modestly on my career to date.
My life, I suppose I would be prepared to concede, has not been entirely devoid of accomplishment. At the age of just four years old I made my first million, by selling second-hand rusks to nursery school children at a 60 per cent mark-up. By 12 I had graduated from Cambridge University, Oxford (double honours in Wealth Appreciation and Brooding Muscularity), and at 17 I was humbled to receive the first of my Nobel Prizes – even if, to my lasting regret, the scheduling of the ceremony meant that I was unavailable to defend my Olympic gold medals in the men’s 400m hurdles, individual dressage and Greco-Roman wrestling. Not forgetting, of course, that at the age of just zero I claimed the joint world record for the youngest person ever born – although reports have reached me that my record has subsequently been equalled, I know not by whom.
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