A/N – Thanks for all of the reviews! Thanks for reading! You'll be a little grossed out in this chapter but it goes to show you just how far Mellie will take things. I did a marathon this week and finally finished watching last season. Anxious for it to come back!

Chapter 10 – Secret Lover

Fitz heard her pick up the phone but then he is met with silence. He normally didn't call Olivia in the middle of the day, but he needed to hear her voice again.

"Liv?"

She couldn't even speak. When she tried to form words, none would come out.

"What's wrong?"

She took a few deep breaths and tried to calm herself down. "Nothing, I'm fine. I'm just having a moment."

"Should I come over?"

"No. You cannot come over here again. Someone could see you."

He sunk against his chair. "All flirting and feelings aside, you know you can tell me anything, right?"

"It's just family. I got in a fight with my father," she said softly.

"I'm sorry that he hurt you."

Her face twisted with emotion. "Me too."

He watched Cyrus walk into his office. "I have to go. We'll talk later."

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Olivia paced as she thought about Mellie and who she might have been visiting the night of the accident. She spent hours going over the direction Mellie was headed towards and comparing it to the addresses of different powerful men in Washington.

Her phone rang and she grabbed it off the coffee table.

"Olivia, it's Cyrus. I need you to write this address down."

She grabbed a pad and scribbled it down.

"Get your people over here right away."

Liv jumped up. "I'm on it."

She quickly made the calls and changed. She could tell by the tone of Cyrus's voice that the situation had not changed for the better.

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When Olivia arrived at the address, she took the elevator up to the condo and knocked on the door. Cyrus pulled her inside and practically dragged her to the bedroom. Mellie was sitting on the couch crying as she passed. They stared at each other until Olivia disappeared into the bedroom.

"What's going on?"

"I need you to be calm and look into the master bedroom."

Olivia nodded. "Okay."

Cyrus opened the door and they moved inside. She gasped when she saw Fitz's father lying dead on the bed. "Damn," she muttered.

"I know. He wasn't even on my radar?"

"What the hell was she thinking?"

Cyrus ran his hands through his hair. "What do we do?"

"Where was Mellie when it happened?"

"Um, she was pleasuring him," Cyrus said dryly. "The President's wife was going down on her father in law and he had a heart attack. You just can't make this shit up."

Olivia didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

There was a knock on the bedroom door and Abby walked inside with Harrison. They both gasped at the sight of the body on the bed.

Olivia started to go into fixer mode. "We need to wipe away any evidence of Mellie being here."

Abby tried not to look grossed out about the idea of Mellie and Jerry sleeping together, but she felt like she was going to hurl.

Olivia picked up her phone. "Huck, I need you to wipe away any trace of Mellie being at the address I gave you, and you know the rest."

"Harrison, follow me." She led him to the living room. "How long have you been here?"

"About two hours. This is our usual meeting place," Mellie said feeling a bit humiliated.

She turned to Harrison. "Wipe down the entire apartment. We have to figure out how we're going to get his body out of here and back to the estate."

"Who owns the condo?" Harrison asked.

Olivia glanced at Cyrus who said, "Jerry."

"Everyone stop," she yelled.

She picked up the phone and re-dialed Huck. "Change in plans, we're going to keep him here. I'm going to take Mellie outside and then walk her back inside. Make sure that the time stamp reads 11:00 p.m. today's date. Erase everything else."

Her attention went to Mellie. "Pull yourself together and let's go." She turned to face Harrison. "Jerry will stay here. We'll say that he called Fitz to talk but Mellie picked up the phone and rushed over here because Fitz was on a phone call."

Olivia grabbed Mellie's arm and led her to the elevator and pressed the button.

"This must just make your night," Mellie said clenching her teeth.

Olivia rolled her eyes. She is done with Mellie and her attitude. "You really think I want to be here dealing with the fact that you have been screwing your father-in-law?"

Mellie's face turned red. "How dare you talk to me like that. You have no idea what Jerry meant to me."

"What you felt about Jerry is irrelevant at this point."

"What a freaking mess," Mellie said angrily.

"A mess that you created. Whatever Jerry meant to you, it was completely and utterly inappropriate. You can't take this back, Mellie. Was it his baby?"

Mellie nodded. "Yes."

They stepped inside the elevator and Olivia pushed the button.

"Since when does someone who is screwing my husband get the right to have an opinion?"

Olivia smirked. "You think I'm sleeping with Fitz?"

"Aren't you?"

The elevator opened and they moved into the lobby. Olivia stopped to address her. "What goes on between Fitzgerald and me is none of your business. It ceased being your business when you made a sex tape with a gay man blackmailed him, possibly had him killed, and then screwed your husband's father."

"I'm still his wife," Mellie said before she swung her hand towards Olivia's face which she intercepted.

"I really wouldn't try that again, Mellie. I didn't see you making your affair with Jerry your husband's business. And trust me, I am painfully aware that you are still his wife, it's just too bad you don't know how to act like one."

Mellie ripped her arm away and strode towards the door. "I hate that bitch," she said under her breath.

Olivia walked her across the street to her town car and then motioned for her secret service detail. "Will one of you walk her into the building please?"

She turned back towards Mellie, "Now walk back into the building and go upstairs. Scratch that, run into the building and hurry to the elevator."

"Fine."

Olivia observed as they went through the motions and then waited a few more seconds before going back inside. She knew she had violated her "no judgment" rule, but Mellie was on her last nerve.