Elena Lincoln is Christian Grey 's longtime friend and business partner and the main antagonist of Fifty Shades Darker. Elena entered Christian's life as a friend to his adoptive mother Dr. Grace Trevelyan Grey , and sexually abused him when he was 15 years old.
Ana gives Elena the nickname Mrs. Robinson, a reference to the film The Graduate. Elena acted as his Domme Female Dominant for six years. Christian believes that Elena's "intervention" was therapeutic for him, and helped him focus his energies on school and curb his drinking and violent tendencies.
Anastasia, however, is not impressed. She believes that Elena took advantage of a disturbed teenager. She is convinced that Elena caused even further damage to Christian. Christian has dinner with Elena while Ana is on vacation in Georgia.
Elena convinces him to fly out to see Ana, hoping that the gesture would freak Ana out and make her want to end their relationship. When Christian takes Ana to a salon owned by him and Mrs.
Robinson, unexpectedly, she appears and that causes Ana to feel irritated and disturbed. Christian then went to meet Elena leaving behind Ana for a moment that makes her more agitated to the point that she leaves, and makes Christian promise not to take her there again. At a charity masquerade party hosted by Christian's parents, Elena is a guest and realizes the relationship between Ana and Christian is serious.
