While Ana explores her newfound sexuality with BDSM, she falls in love with her billionaire dominant and seeks to find what's beneath his controlling exterior. And there's a heck of a lot of fornication. There's a playroom stocked with floggers, whips, and blindfolds. He asks Ana to sign a nondisclosure agreement and then promptly reveals he's not looking for romance but instead wants a sexual dominant-submissive relationship. Then in the ultimate billionaire flex, Christian orchestrates several 'chance' encounters until their chemistry bubbles over. She's awkward he's inexplicably taken with the way she can chew a pencil eraser and bite her lower lip. English lit major Anastasia (Ana) Steele-filling in for her flu-ridden, journalism student, best-friend-slash-roommate Kate Kavanagh-interviews Christian Grey for the student paper.