Chapter 29
Fitz had returned to the White House to eat. He had only realized he was famished when Olivia had asked him about his growling stomach. This thing about whether Olivia was going to forgive him or not it had thrown him for a loop. He had been so afraid. She had come back to him and he had done this dumb thing and it could have cost him everything. But Olivia had understood what he had done and why. They were going to get another chance.
He had gone directly to the residence and Cook's kitchen. It was the early hours of the morning but Cook would feed him. He just needed to get something in his stomach and get back to Olivia. They undoubtedly needed to talk some more and then they could get to the business of a reunion complete with him back in her bed. He had missed her and how he wanted her. She had sent him away to feed his hunger but his hunger for her was far greater than his hunger for food. When he was thinking that she would reject him he had lost his appetite and had simply forgotten to eat.
Cook came out and greeted the President. She had gotten up and dressed. Cook was the best. What did he want? Did he want breakfast or something else? When he explained that he hadn't eaten for days she just shook her head. Cook said he would have to eat light or risk an upset stomach. She would fix him some nice fluffy scrambled eggs, some turkey bacon, some homemade applesauce, and some hot bread. He couldn't eat anything heavy until his empty stomach adjusted. She suggested he drink milk to buffer all the acidity in his gut from not eating for four days. Cook was a saint and she had been taking care of him and his children for years. If she said he had better eat light he would. However on the way here he had visions of Cook grilling him a porterhouse medium rare with loaded baked potato and a side of grilled veggies. Some grilled Texas toast would've been nice too, but it wasn't going to happen. Cook said no. Maybe for dinner she had said,
The President sat there patiently waiting for his food. He and Tom were talking about all that had happened and how happy he was right now. He had her back. The trick for this married man, father of two, President of the United States, and leader of the free world was how to keep her. It was a trick he intended to perform with perfection. He had no intention of losing her again.
Olivia was sitting down on her couch eating popcorn and drinking wine. She was going over all that had happened over the past few days and she was a very lucky woman. She had played with fire and nearly gotten burned. That game she had been playing was one of the more ridiculous things she had ever done in her life. She had realized it just in time. The man she had chosen to share her body with had been a pervert and sleaze. She couldn't believe she had been so dumb. Ordinarily she could read people so well but for some reason she had pegged Jake Ballesston so wrong. He was going to be punished and she could accept that. She didn't need to know more. Fitz said he would never be in her orbit again and that was good enough for her.
All she wanted now was her man back. All she wanted Fitzgerald Grant. She wanted a chance for them. She was afraid Mellie was never going to let him go but she didn't care. Anyway she could have him she would take. She loved him enough to be his mistress. He had gone to the White House to eat. He hadn't eaten for four days? He had been so afraid he was going to lose her he had neglected to eat and had barely slept. The only time he had slept was when he had been in the hospital lying beside her. They both had done some foolish things lately but hers was the worst of the two. Fitz had told her there was nothing he wouldn't forgive in reference to her and apparently he meant it. Her seeking some other guy to have sex with had been ludicrous. And Fitz hiring someone to follow her and take pictures of her had been crazy as well. They should have just gone to the other and started talking. Fitz said they would talk when he returned. She didn't want to talk she wanted to take him to bed. Olivia wanted him so much. She needed to feel him inside her.
Olivia was going to be at home for a minimum of one week, she was mending from a head injury she wasn't dying. She still had a business to run. However if she attempted to thwart her doctors or Fitzgerald Grant she would lose. So she had best get on the program. First though she needed to eat something herself more sustainable than popcorn. And she probably shouldn't be drinking wine. She got online and ordered some real food for herself and something for her man. She expected he would be in and out of her place for the foreseeable future. She had sent him away this time but she didn't intend to repeat that folly again. If he was hungry she would cater to that need as well.
She called the office and spoke to Huck. They were doing fine. Huck had informed them of her dilemma not the entire story of course but they had the basic information. Olivia had been hurt by someone she had gotten involved with while on the rebound from the relationship she was involved in. Her team knew she was involved with the President it was a fact. Olivia Pope was grown and none of them had called her out on it. It was her life. Huck said they wanted to come by all of them to see her to make sure she was alright. Maybe tomorrow she had told him. She needed the night for herself and her lover. Fitz would be back after he had eaten and they both would try to make up for months of being without the other.
Her bounty arrived. She actually ordered all types of foods something she never did. She wasn't an eater but Fitz was. If she intended to keep him by her side she would have to feed his natural hunger as well as his sexual one. There were eggs, bacon, croissants, whole grains, milk, cheese, gourmet breads, real sliced ham and turkey, salad greens, gourmet soups, fresh veggies, steaks, fish, and some lamb chops. She even had ordered some potato chips. Gourmet jalapeño flavored ones were his favorite. Although it wasn't something he ate a lot he liked fresh meat subs filled with veggies and a guilty pleasure of his was to accompany that with potato chips. She had a freshly baked apple pie and Ben and Jerry's homemade vanilla ice cream. She had strawberries, pound cake, and real whipping cream. Of course Olivia Pope didn't cook and she didn't do menus. But Fitz was an excellent cook and organizer. She would be his helper. This food thing would work out fine! Plus she had his favorite scotch to pour over ice.
She was going to spend this week at home in bed just as the doctor ordered but she also intended to have the President of the United States in it with her. When he needed to eat she would feed him. But she intended to keep him naked and in her bed as often as she could. Her plan for the most part was devious but a girl had to do what a girl had to do. She had initiated the rift between them. She wanted it mended. They had started on the road to mending their broken hearts. Mistakes had been made mostly on her part but they were correctable mistakes.
Olivia wasn't sure when Fitz would be back after all he is the President. She knew he had left his Presidential duties in order to be by her side while she was injured and during her healing process. Fitz was multi-tasked and he was a brilliant strategist. She was sure nothing had been neglected in reference to the work of the President. And she was right.
Fitz had met every obligation since Olivia was hurt. He had entered his mistress into an emergency safety protocol that by political definition she didn't qualify for. However by his definition she qualified for everything. He would do it all again. The President had eaten his breakfast and gone back to work. He and Cyrus had been in the Oval for the last two hours. Next up were the White House briefings of the day. The President had two crucial meetings today that Cyrus wouldn't reschedule because of their importance to future agendas of the Administration.
Fitz was able to get right back into the presidential mode. Yet Olivia was foremost on his mind. He didn't want to leave her at all but she had been right he needed to eat. His body would wear down without sustenance. He and Cyrus were having a working lunch right here in the Oval. While waiting for their meals to arrive Fitz had updated Cyrus in more detail on Olivia. She was at home now having been released from the hospital this morning. Cyrus was surprised Fitz had left her side but he wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. The President was here working and he was doing a great job.
Luncheon arrived and it was delicious. Cook was still on the case though. A grilled white fish with a delicious lemon butter sauce complimented with baked potato plied with butter, sour cream, fresh scallions and bacon bits. The cole slaw was actually braised red cabbage with raisins and carrots drizzled with a tangy orange blend. It was good eating and the two men had ceased most of their conversation while they devoured it. Fitzgerald Grant's body was adjusting to being without food for days and it appeared he wasn't going to have any lasting effects.
The President just wanted to do his job and get back to Olivia! He planned to eat dinner with the children tonight. He hadn't eaten dinner with them in several days. Mellie would be there without a doubt and he wasn't in the mood for her today. The woman had been ruining his life for years and he intended for that to stop. She was still running around the White House in her usual pretend modes, well as he said he wasn't in the mood for it today. They had that big blowout in the bathroom weeks ago and she hadn't spoken a word to him since. It was a wise move he was still livid with her. She and she alone was the main cause of the breach that occurred between him and Olivia. She had manipulated the entire thing and to his dying day he would never forget it.
After the final meeting of the day the President let out a deep sigh. He had taken five minutes to call Olivia and let her know that he was going to put in a full day at work and culminate that with dinner with the kids. They were home on Spring Break and he had only seen them once because of the incident with Olivia. He inquired about her day and how she was feeling. He hoped to be at her place no later than eight-thirty or nine.
"I am fine Fitz. I feel wonderful in fact. All I need is for you to come back to me. The time doesn't matter. Just know that I am waiting for you."
"Okay Olivia. I hope you ate something yourself today. You need to take care of yourself as well. You were hurt Olivia. In the hospital you were eating regularly and I liked seeing that. You are eating aren't you, something other than popcorn?"
"I am Fitz I had quite a bit of food delivered today. I even ordered some things that you like to eat. I don't intent to send you away again because I haven't a way to feed you. I intend to spend every moment I can with you Fitz. I don't want to be without you again. Do you understand what I am saying? It doesn't matter that you have wife. I don't care. I just want us."
Fitz had closed his eyes and had a private moment of prayer. Olivia shouldn't have to make concessions like this. She deserved so much more than he had been able to give her. She was reduced to being a mistress and accepting it because she loved him. Of course it was in name only. Olivia would never be a mistress to him.
He should have walked away from the Presidency and Mellie years ago. Olivia had begged him not to because of the children. She had known Mellie would drag them into the fiasco and she didn't want that for them. She was always putting his needs and the needs of his children before her own. He realized what she was doing and he loved her more because of it. But he was going to have to make some hard decisions real soon. He wouldn't see Olivia hurt anymore that she already had been.
This incident with Ballesston had been his entire fault. He hadn't extracted himself from Mellie and her machinations and Olivia had ended up injured and in a hospital. Even now he wasn't sure he could live with the role he had played in it. To be honest he hoped Jake would make the mistake of coming back to the United States he would personally kill him himself. He had shown him that one ounce of mercy because he had instigated his involvement but he wouldn't give him succor again. His life would indeed be forfeit if he returned here!
"You have us Sweet Baby. We are together again and we are going to stay that way. I will see you after my dinner with the kids. I told you they were here on Spring Break. They will be going back in a few days and I have only spent a couple of hours with them. I hope you understand. I love you Olivia."
"I love you back and I understand. Take your time with the children Fitz. I know you have been away from them in order to be with me. So enjoy your time with them. I will be here waiting."
Fitz finished up and headed down to dinner. He would make it up to the children. Perhaps he would take the trip back with them to school himself. They both knew he loved Olivia. They shouldn't have known but they did. They had confronted him and he didn't deny it. At ten and twelve year olds they had seen the love he had tried to hide. They would keep his secret. They understood him loving someone else because "mother is hard to love" they had said. It was pathetic discourse to have with one's pre-pubertal children, but it had happened.
He entered the dining room and of course Mellie was there waiting. She hadn't said a word to him since the bathroom fiasco and he saw no need to change it. He pulled out his phone and called Jerry and asked where they were? Jerry informed him that he and Karen had eaten earlier with Cook. They had gotten the impression from Uncle Cy that he wouldn't be at dinner again tonight. They didn't like dining with their mother alone. He closed his eyes and almost left the room. But no he wasn't leaving. He signaled to the waiter they were ready to eat.
"Where are Karen and Jerry? They know we dine together when they are in town. What is going on? Just because you haven't shown up for the last few nights, which is inexcusable by the way, I won't allow them not to sit down to dinner. Call them back and tell them to present themselves at the table."
"They have already eaten with Cook. I see no need for them to consume two meals. I won't be calling them back. Your silence has been golden these past weeks Mellie I wish you would continue it. They have three more days here let's attempt to make it pleasant for them."
"What happened you couldn't get up with Olivia Pope again? I know some how you have taken up with her again. Not one person knows where you have been for the last three days. No one in Washington, DC knows where the fucking President of the United States is? That is total bullshit. You are back with Olivia Pope, admit it!"
"Dillon I would like some strawberry walnut dressing tonight please. Mellie is it really necessary to air our dirty laundry in front of the staff? What I will admit is that you and I are done. You don't want a divorce so be it. If you are expecting the same terms as before forget it. All you need to do is stay in your lane. I can assure I will stay in mine. Now if you will excuse me I want to finish my dinner and spend some time with my children."
"After being MIA for days you think you can stroll back in here and be big dog just like that? I want to know where you have been. I want to…"
"Mellie if you are going to harass me during this meal I will simply take my plate and dine elsewhere. Where I go and what I do is none of your business. And I can assure you I could care less what you want. I have no intention of discussing anything with you other than issues that concern Jerry and Karen. Other than that l have to say "lose my number."
"How dare you talk to me this way and dismiss me like I am some shrilly off the street. I am still your wife and I have rights. Olivia Pope influences you to talk to me this way. Of course we all know she runs your life. She manipulates your spineless ass like you are a puppet. And don't talk to me in that Karen valley girl talk I won't have it!"
The President stood up and called for the waiter again. "Dillon would you help me remove my dinner to my study please? Good evening Mellie."
Mellie sat there stunned. He had walked out on her. He was refusing to have dinner with her or even discuss their children. They were really all she had left in this game. She was going to have to regroup. She looked down at her food. She was no longer hungry. That son of a bitch was going to regret dissing her. She stood up and left the table as well.
Mellie had spoiled his appetite and portions of his meal were no longer hot. He ate it anyway. He hadn't eaten in four days. After finishing his meal he walked over to the children's wing. He went to Jerry's room first. He was at his computer and looked at his dad smiled and said hello. He shut down his computer and turned to father and said, "What's up Dad?"
"I am sorry I have not seen you kids since you arrived on the first day. You only had a week at home and four days are already gone. I promise I will make it up to you. I was thinking Saturday would be a great day for amends. You and Karen can call the shots. You two get together and decide what you want to do and let me know. I will clear my calendar. Also I was thinking I could accompany you back to school. That would give us additional time together. What do you think?"
"It sounds good Dad. I will get with Karen. And Dad you don't have to explain to Karen and me we know you are the President and you are busy. You can't always be available just because we are at home from school. We understand. Plus you and mother don't get along so don't sweat it. We will have dinner tomorrow night together now that we know you will be there and we will have Saturday."
"Okay son is there anything pressing you would like to talk about tonight. I am available right now to discuss it anything at all. I had planned to discuss with you two about the possibility of you returning home to live here with us full time. There are some wonderful schools available right here in DC. I plan to tell Karen the same thing I told you. I just want you two to think about it okay? I love you love Jerry I hope you know that."
"I know Dad. I truly do. It is one of the things I keep in my special place, that you love us. And you have even let Olivia love us too. I will think about your suggestion Dad, but just so you know for the most part Karen and I are uncomfortable here especially when you aren't around. But we are willing to discuss it. I'll see you tomorrow then. I have to finish a report that definitely needs to be done before Saturday now. I want to have the entire day free. Spending the day with you will be fun."
"Come and give your old man a hug." The President hugged his son probably much too hard and much too long. It felt good to hold him. He was going to bring his children home where they belonged with him. "Good night Jerry I will see you tomorrow."
Fitz knocked on Karen's door and she said come in. "Hi Karoodles. What are you up to?"
"Jeez Daddy not Karoodles please! You know I don't like that silly baby name. What are you up to is the question? I am watching television of course. Oh my god, when you start calling me Karoodles I begin to worry."
"I have only spent a day and a half with you since you arrived here. And I left you two alone with your mother without warning for several days. I am sorry baby girl. There was an emergency and unfortunately I couldn't get away before you were in bed and asleep. I did come in and check on you though every night. I was just telling Jerry that I want to make it up to you on Saturday. Barring an emergency I would like to spend the entire day with you top to bottom. How does that sound?"
"I'm in Dad. I have missed you. And where is Olivia I miss her too. She's like family."
"Olivia and I had a disagreement that we have finally ironed out. However she is under the weather and she isn't able to come to the White House right now. I will certainly tell her you asked about her. She cares about you and Jerry you know, you are important to her. I have missed you too sweetheart. In fact I have missed you so much I am thinking of bringing you and Jerry back home to live and have you go to school here. I was thinking four years is long enough to be away from your family."
"Dad I don't know, Mother 24/7 is just not conducive to good family vibes. It won't work. Plus she doesn't want us here. She doesn't like us Daddy, not at all. And quite frankly I don't like her either. She is mean and petty."
"Karen your mother isn't perfect no one is including me. But she is your mother. I think we can all learn to be civil if we try. I want you guys here with me. I have missed so much of your childhood and it was wrong that I ever agreed to send you away. I capitulated to your mother to keep the peace between us and in turn deprived you and Jerry of a home life. I am ashamed of myself for that and I promise I intend to make it up to you. But you have to give me a chance Karoodles. You have to have faith in me that if you come home we can be a family. It won't all be easy. Your mother isn't an easy woman to live with. We can try though. That is all I am asking. Think about it will you?"
"I promise I will. But what about you and Olivia Daddy I know you still love her. Why don't you just get a divorce and marry her? I think that would improve our family situation a lot!"
"Karen you know that is grown folks conversation and you shouldn't be discussing me and Olivia."
"I know that Daddy but you are never going to be happy with Mother when you love someone else. Isn't that true?"
"The life I have led Karen hasn't been exemplary. I have done some things that I'm never going to be proud of but I have always been truthful with you and Jerry. Both of you are wise beyond your years and there would have been no need for me to lie, you to have seen directly through it. When you asked about Olivia I told you truth. Many would judge me a horrible father for it. My concern has never been what others think about me that isn't how I lead my life. Living a lie is never good for anyone including children."
"I love you Karen and your brother. What I want for you is the best this life has to offer. You deserve to have a loving home and parents that have only your best interest at heart. You haven't had that at all. I do believe your mother loves you to the extent that she can love anyone. I hope you will always consider that Karen. Your mother is different and her perspective on life to put it bluntly isn't within the norms. However I hope you won't let that be a determining factor in agreeing to come home and trying to bring our family together as much as we can. Will you do this for me Karoodles?"
"Yes I will Daddy. I love you too. We are going to be alright. I know we are. Let's have our Saturday and when you take us back to school we will talk more okay?"
They walked toward each other and embraced. The President actually picked her up and twirled her around the way he being doing since she was a baby. Karen delighted in those hugs and twirls her daddy gave her they had been a lifeline for her as long as she could remember. Knowing that her father would always be there was very comforting to her. She kissed her father on the cheek and said goodnight.
Fitz had gone to his quarters to change to into something more casual. He had a couple of suits over at Olivia's if she hadn't thrown them out. Of course he had lost eighteen pounds since their break-up and they may very well not be a good fit anymore. Thing was he didn't plan to leave her until he had to tomorrow morning, meaning short of something in the world going very wrong he didn't want to be bothered with the outside world.
He changed his clothing, brushed his teeth, and headed back to the Oval to check on some things. He called Cyrus who was still in his office to see if anything different had come across his nightly feed in reference to world news or the situation of the nation. Nothing he should worry about Cyrus had said. Fitz asked Cyrus to come to his office there were some things he really wanted to discuss that he didn't want to talk about on the phone.
"Of course Mr. President I will be right down. Will you be out of the White House this evening Sir?"
"I will be Cyrus. I will see you in a few then."
The President was sitting behind his desk. He had done all he could here he could go where he wanted to go now. He wanted to talk to Cy because he wouldn't come back here until tomorrow unless a true emergency occurred concerning the nation. This reunion with Olivia it was important. It was eventually going to be very sexual he knew that but he had some more to say first and he hoped Olivia would talk as well. They had hashed out a lot before he left but he wanted to express more.
"Come in Cyrus. As you know Olivia is back in my life and I pray it is for good. I know I put you through a lot when I was grieving for her. I wish I could have been stronger but I don't have to tell you she is my Achilles heel. Without her I am hardly all I need to be. I remember right here in this office when you first learned of our affair you were shocked to your bones. I saw your expression of disbelief and disappointment. It pained me that I was the cause for your disillusionment."
"When you had first taken me on as a client at my father's request you came to be and told me you had no time for philanderers and fools. 'If you are a cheater like your father tell me now young Mr. Grant because I don't have time to babysit women that are scorned and run behind grown men demanding that they keep their pants zipped,' you said. You were so serious and so was I when I said I wasn't like my father and I never would be. I told you the condition of my marriage and where I was in it. It was pretty much dead even then. Mellie had me believing that screwing your wife twice a year would work for us because we didn't love each other and there was no need to pretend. We practically despised each other after the first five years. And then with your help I went on to become Governor."
"During those eight years we had two children at the insistence of my father. I knew I wanted out of the marriage but I stayed. My thinking at the time had been what woman wouldn't be moved the joy of having children and wanting to build a real family around them? Apparently that one woman would be my wife. But I continued to stay even then. And then my father decided he wanted me to be president. He brought you back into the picture and we started our dance all over again."
"Things weren't going so well this time and you hired Olivia to help us. I knew where Olivia and I were going Cy. I saw it as clearly as if I were looking into a crystal ball. It is why I asked you to fire her. I have loved her since that first day you know. And when we finally started the affair I didn't know how to tell you. You had such a firm belief in me. You knew I hadn't touched a woman in over a decade so why would you assume I would fall off the wagon? Yet you knew Olivia. She had been your student. You knew the type of exuberance and vitality she possessed. You loved yourself, not the way I love her but yet you did. I love her still Cy and I have her back. It has been a nightmarish struggle but we are back together."
"I am getting ready to go to her and I have no intention of leaving her until I have to and that will be tomorrow morning. You and I have been at my desk most of the day and we have zeroed in on all the national and world feeds. Nothing is going on right now. I am sure you know that. You are deeper into this shit than I ever was. And of course you have been essentially running the country for months. I am grateful Cy. I know I let you down. As I told you weeks ago I have put the bottle down and I am back. I was back even before she was hurt and I knew she was coming back to me."
"I'm glad you are my Chief of Staff Cyrus and that you sit at the arm of the President. More than the Chief of Staff you are my friend and Olivia's too. We are grateful Cy. I have put so much atop your shoulders and you never once flinched or refused to help me. I need your help again tonight. I need you to watch over this house and the nation. Unless something big happens I want to be left alone. Can I count on you tonight Cy?"
"You can Mr. President. I will be here all night. If I should need you I will call you. Go on back to her Fitz. I know what you have been through I was there remember. Have your reunion Sir and give Olivia my regards."
"I am off then. I will see you tomorrow." The President picked up the phone and called Tom he would be ready to go in five minutes.
Olivia was not in the bed waiting for Fitz though she really did want to be. She was super needy right now. However she knew that Fitz liked to lay things out when there were issues between them. If they had talked, if she had allowed them to talk, they might have avoided all of this mess. They had been together for over two years when she bolted. They had eighteen glorious months on the campaign trail and he had been in the White House for seven when she left him. She had been a fool. She loved the man no one else but him. He loved her back and for right now nothing else mattered.
She was in her great room going over some emails and waiting for him. Whatever he wanted she was here for it. And she kept seeing him with a furrow in his forehead. He wanted to talk and she would listen and she would talk as well. She was indeed reading emails but she was also listening for the turn of his key in the lock. Where was he? It was then she heard the key in the lock and her heart did a three-sixty and started to beat very fast. He was back. Her life would get a reboot tonight.
He entered the foyer and he stopped. He didn't hear a television or anything. He wondered if Olivia was sleeping. It was around nine-thirty a little later than he had planned to get back. He walked on into the great room and there she was sitting Indian style on her couch eating popcorn with a glass of red wine on the table in front of her. She stood up and looked at him with her gorgeous Olivia Pope smile.
Her hair was pressed out long silky and straight. She had on a black set of lounging pajamas. He had expected her to be in something small and sexy that he could basically pull off in a single sweep. She knew how much he loved to look at her naked body. And she knew how much he would want her. He hadn't experienced one single solitary sexual experience since their breakup other than those in his dreams. Olivia had dressed this way because she knew he wanted to talk about them and where they were going with this reunion. She wasn't going to be a distraction, at least not yet.
"You are back and I am so glad. How are the children are they okay?"
"They are fine Olivia they asked about you. I didn't tell them you had been injured. I simply told them you were under the weather. Cyrus sends his best as well. How are you feeling Olivia? Did your day continue to go well? I am sorry I am just getting back. But I am back now and I would like to talk a bit about us and where we are right now. I love you Olivia more than anything and I don't want to lose you again."
"We have already talked about what we did wrong when you walked away from us months ago we should have picked up the phone and talked about what happened. We should have discussed your fears and what I could have done to alleviate them. I put an extremely hard burden on you Olivia asking you to love me blindly while I am a married man that has to love you in the shadows. It has to eat at you because I know the type of woman you are. I know that you denied every principle that you had lived your life by in order to be with me, to love me. I didn't force you to come to me and share your life and body with me. You came of your own free will. But I stood there every day looking at you with my love for you in my eyes waiting for you to because I couldn't help myself Olivia. Every day I prayed for you to love me back knowing I had no right to."
"On that bus on that country road in Georgia I sat their willing you to come to me. My dreams of ever having you for myself were shot. Mellie had just told that ridiculous lie about a pregnancy knowing I hadn't touched her for years. I was devastated because I didn't see a way out of the quagmire I was in. I said if I could just hear you say my name on your lips just once. I would push through, I would go on. And by some miracle you came to me and sat beside me and I asked you to say my name. It took you a while but you did finally say my name and you took my hand. That night Olivia changed my life forever. All I ever dreamed happened for me that night. I want us Olivia. I want a life with you. I want a family with you."
"I am asking Mellie for a divorce again and this time I won't take no for an answer. She will try to take me down. In fact she may end my Presidency and see me railroaded from this town. I will go gladly if you will go with me. Things are going to get mean and ugly Olivia because Mellie is a mean and ugly woman through and through. She will come for me and she will come for you. I am telling you all this because I can't take you running again. I can't lose you again. I can't. I need your promise that when there are things that take you to that unhappy place you will come to me and we will work on it. When Mellie comes for you come to me I can handle her. Promise me Olivia that you won't run away from me again."
She walked into his arms and she hugged him with all her might. And he was holding her as if he would never let her go. For the longest while neither of them spoke. Fitz had been waiting for Olivia to state her promise. He needed to hear her say it. Olivia had heard the desperation in his voice and it had weakened her. She had brought this powerful man to this. She had made him so afraid that he now trembled as he held her. She wasn't quite sure what her total emotions were at the moment but she was somewhat disgusted with herself. The things she had done, what she had put them both through. She had let some strange man she met in a coffee shop put his hands on her and inside her body knowing she loved another man.
Olivia looked up into his eyes and said, "I know you have said love means never having to say you are sorry, but I am so sorry Fitz. I know I have hurt you so much. I can hear it in your voice, I see it in your eyes, and I feel it in a touch that is tentative and searching. Since we started our affair over two years ago I have gloried in it. It was the air I needed to breathe every day. I craved it, I craved you. It has been all I ever dreamed too. Our love is a wonderful thing. We have shared so much and loved so hard. Neither you nor I had any reason to believe that the love we shared wasn't reciprocal. Every action I have done since that first night in Atlanta has been about loving you. And it has been the same for you."
"And then your wife showed up at a cabin at Camp David and burst our bubble to smithereens. She peeled back the veneer. She exposed the flaw of my thinking. You weren't mine you still belonged to her. I literally died when I opened that door and saw her standing there beside you. I could no longer see the forest for the trees. My hurt was so deep. You see I believed you were mine. That belief had determined every step of my life since fell in love with you. But at that moment I saw no way out. Mellie knew what she was doing that night. She thought to demoralize me and put me in my proper place. She had you walk her to my cabin to give me a silent message. 'You are a mistress Olivia and that is all you are ever going to be.' It shook me badly and I couldn't recover. I ran. I left you because I could see no way forward. I left you and I stayed gone."
"I wandered around aimlessly denying you and denying us. I hurt so much and in all that hurt and denial I had begun to doubt if what we had was real. It was real Fitz. It is real. I was wrong to doubt us. I should never have left you. I won't run again. I won't deny my love for you. I have caused us both so much unnecessary pain and I am so sorry Fitz. I love you so much. I promise I won't leave you again."
"Livvie we have been so foolish. This thing between us is bigger than the both of us but when we stand together we are so strong we are impenetrable. Millie and all other obstacles don't stand a chance when we stand tall in the love we share and fight for it. That is all we have to remember. We are in this together Olivia me and you. I do belong to you Olivia I am yours. I have missed you so much Sweet Baby and I need you so much. Your absence from my life has been the worst days of my life. I am so glad you are back Olivia."
"Fitz there are no hoops for either of us to go through. We pick exactly from where we were okay? You were coming to my cabin and we were going to have a wonderful night of loving each other. I have been waiting here all day for your return. I want that night. I want that night back."
"I am here Olivia. Your wait, our wait is over."
The love fest started with a kiss. It was a kiss filled with longing and extreme hunger. They both needed to sate a sexual hunger that had long been denied. Tonight the President would make love to his woman like there was a tomorrow because now there was. And his woman was just as eager as he was. The kiss had turned dangerously hot. His hands were everywhere kneading, pinching, and massaging. Her hands hadn't gone for his belt somewhat a standard for her. Instead she had unzipped his pants and found what she sought and immediately wrapped one had around it claiming it for herself.
The President had ended the kiss as soon as she wrapped her hand around him because he wasn't sure he could remain standing during her ministrations. He picked her up and headed for the bedroom. Once in there he deposited her on the bed. He had come to the room and had gone straight to the bed in the darkness. He knew the bedroom like a good book one reads over and over again. He reached over and turned on the lamp that immediately illuminated the room a hazy light.
"Pull off your clothes Olivia I want to see every inch of you."
"You do the same Mr. President. I want to see what is mine."
Olivia only had two garments to remove and she discarded them quickly. She was now on her knees in the middle of the bed watching Fitz undress. She was totally focused. "Hurry," she said.
Once he was fully unclothed he looked at her and smiled. "You are still the most beautiful woman in the world Olivia. Come down here and stand here with me for a minute and let me explore, let me see, and touch what is mine."
Olivia arose from the bed like the queen she had always been. Standing before Fitz she made no attempt cover herself at all. Her smile was very telling but she said in her sexiest voice, "Explore all you want Mr. President, every inch of me is yours."
He stood before her and first put his hands on her shoulder and then he rubbed up and down her arms. Next he cupped a breast in each hand as if to weigh them, then he started to use his thumbs to make her nipples pucker and harden. With one hand he had kept engaged with her perfectly formed breasts with the other he traced the outline of her face, eyes, nose, and her lips. He placed his index finger inside her mouth and Olivia wasted no time pulling it inside her plum-tinted mouth and started to suck on it. That visual sent more unbridled lust straight to his dick. It literally jumped at her. She reached out and grabbed on to it and let her hands light as a feather rub up and the down the length of him. He had closed his eyes at the touch of her. He had missed her so much. He put his mouth to her and they began another passionate kiss. He had also put two fingers inside her exploring and ratcheting up the heat.
He whispered in her ear, "I don't know where to start Livvie. I am so greedy I want everything. I want to give you everything. I want to lay claim to you. I want you branded with what I feel for you. I want you to see that there can never ever not be an us."
"Oh god Fitz I know that. It is only us. No one else matters. No one." She had lifted herself onto her toes in order to better feel what he was doing to her with his hands. He was skilled with his hands and so was she. They both were reveling in the mutual stimulation.
"Tell me what you what Fitz. I will give you anything, whatever you want."
"I have missed it all. Everything about you is imprinted in my mind, but I was dreaming then it wasn't real. This is real Livvie I need to taste you. I need to feel your mouth on me. I need to be inside you. I want it all Olivia. I want…"
She dropped to her knees and the object of her desire, that which she had been massaging and stroking, she started to lick and lap at it. She put him inside her mouth and she started to feast upon him. He guided himself back against the bed in order to brace himself. His legs had become weak and wobbly. Olivia was doing everything he liked just the way he had taught her. The friction and suction she was creating was unbelievable. She could end this prematurely and he didn't want that and neither did she. He stopped her by pulling her back up to him and they started some more mind boggling kissing. Finally he picked her up and positioned her on the edge of the bed and drew her legs up and he dropped to his knees between them.
He inhaled her scent and then he went to town licking and lapping at her. He wanted to hear her screaming his name out loud more than once. He hadn't heard it in months and once wasn't going to be nearly enough. He put on an all out assault on her clit while he also worked her with his long knowing fingers. In a matter of minutes Olivia was at that place. She grabbed some of his curls and she held on. Her first real orgasm in months was hard and fierce as it came in wave after wave of pleasure.
He didn't wait for the waves to stop. She was still quaking as he stood up and pushed slowly inside her. When he couldn't tell where he ended and she began he started to move. His strokes were strong and sure. He knew what he wanted to feel and he knew what he wanted his woman to feel. He would enter her deep and sure and bring himself almost out and then he would slide back inside her sure to glide past her most sensitive spot as he did so. It was driving Olivia mad. She again was back at the height of pleasure. She had opened her eyes to watch him as stroked in and out of her. He was masterful at this. Once she had known the extent of his expertise in the bedroom Olivia had craved what he did to her. It was a glorious thing, sex with Fitzgerald Grant.
She was matching him stroke for stroke encouraging him, saying what she was feeling. She had risen up on her elbows to watch him. She was biting her bottom lip and making little mewing sounds as she came closer and closer to a second orgasm. The President took his thumb and added it to the assault on her swollen nubbin.
"Come for me Livvie let me see it. Rock on it Sweet Baby. Move Livvie move!" He stopped moving to watch her moving on him bringing herself to that place. She reached out for his hands. She wanted them entwined with hers as she watched them mate. It was exotic and the feeling so exquisite she was thinking to herself as the pleasure started to engulf a second time. Would she survive the onslaught of pleasure? It was so fucking good. It would be a hundred times better if he were moving. Why wasn't he moving? She needed him to move!
"Please move with me Fitz, make me, make me scream! Oh my god! Fitzzzz! I'm coming." Olivia collapsed back onto her back and let bliss overtake her. She screamed out loud again as she quivered around him. She had dropped his hands and they were now clawed deeply into the sheets. Fitz had started to move when she had asked him to. He kept up a steady cadence within her as she exploded. It took a lot of resolve and control not to follow her and stroke himself to completion but he wasn't finished yet with the branding. When she opened her eyes he was still standing at the edge of the bed still moving. He was watching her waiting for her to recover.
She was breathing fast and her chest was moving up and down as if she had run a race. His hands had covered her breast and he was kneading them and making her nipples hard and pebbled beneath his touch. His touch it was intoxicating. Next he started to suck one and then the other hard. He was so very needy tonight. She loved him at her breasts it sent shocks straight to her still quivering pussy. Olivia held his head to her and whispered the words, "I love you Fitz so much."
He continued to suck, nip, and lave at her breasts for several minutes before he raised his head. "I love you back Livvie, so damned much. You feel so good Sweet Baby. I want to come so badly. I want to be inside you so deep. I need to be inside you so deep. Move to the center of the bed Livvie," he said in that voice as he disengaged from her. She was still weak from the two orgasms in a row but she wanted more and she knew he was going to give it to her. Olivia knew what he wanted. She got on her knees in the middle of the bed and she waited for him to come behind her. She licked her lips in anticipation. He was going to end this round doggie style. She was a very lucky girl.
He was behind her whispering what he was going to do to her, what she would feel, and what he wanted her to do. His hands had found her breasts and started the same wonderful ministrations to them again. Long and hard he was at her entrance probing. He was rubbing himself back and forth across her labia coating himself with her wetness. It was maddening. She wanted him inside her and she told him so.
He entered her then just a few inches and the bulbous tip. He asked her to move on it like she wanted it. She did. He wouldn't let her take him all in. He angled right on her hot spot and held her there while she worked it. Olivia was about to lose her shit again. She turned her head in for a kiss just before she could no longer hold herself up. Not missing a beat he then pushed himself in to the hilt. He moved in between her legs and started a full assault on her senses. This position was super intense and it allowed a deep penetration with unbelievable friction. It was so good. He had been dreaming of this for months and now it was real.
He started to stroke himself home. Ever mindful that he had to wait for Olivia he started to whisper in her ear exactly what he was feeling and how close he was to coming inside her. But he wanted her with him they would go over the cliff together. He was deep inside her exactly where he wanted to be. He was forceful and steady. It felt so fucking good. He had missed this. He had missed her. He was almost there. Could she feel it? Was she ready to come again? She was!
"Move with me Livvie. Back up on it and make me, make me Livvie. Make me explode inside you!" She did. Olivia began moving with him encouraging him to take them over the cliff. After that the end came quickly. He called out her name and collapsed on top of her deeply embedded inside her. He continued pumping inside her as wave after wave of orgasmic bliss hit him. For a few minutes he wondered if he would even suck air into his lungs again. He also wondered if he was crushing her. He was practically boneless after sex with Olivia. He asked her if she was alright. She was. Breathing like he had run a race he turned them over on their sides with him still inside her. He wrapped her in his arms and held her close.
"I love you more than anything," he whispered. Olivia had already fallen asleep and he could hear her contented mild snoring. Sex drained her especially after serial climax. He closed his eyes and he sighed. Was there anything in this world better than making love with a woman that meant everything to you? He doubted it. He wasn't sleepy at all. He was wide awake and wanting her again. In fact at this very moment he was hardening inside her. Like he had said earlier he was needy and obviously he was greedy but he could wait. They had all night and some of the morning if he decided to take it. When she awakened and wanted more he would give it to her. Partially sated for the moment he closed his eyes and soon he was asleep as well.