Senator by Sienna Snow

Author:Sienna Snow [Snow, Sienna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948756020
Publisher: Sienna Snow
Published: 2018-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Two weeks after leaving Austin, I exited my car at the basement entrance of the Rosewood Washington Hotel in the heart of Washington DC. Ashur had yet to make his big announcement, something I knew would occur any day.

I’d spoken with Samina in great detail about what was going to happen, and I’d resolved myself to the fact that more than likely I’d go up against Ashur in four years. It hurt deep inside to know people who I considered family would become my enemies. No matter how we felt behind closed doors, in public, we’d have to stay strictly along party lines. The worst part was my best friend would side with her brother and I couldn’t expect anything else of her.

Then there was Veer. I hadn’t heard from or spoken to him since he left my house that weekend. The only news I’d heard about him was when Veer had ruffled a few feathers in Texas by repeatedly voicing his opposition to the president’s spending bill, especially his handling of education funding for states falling behind the national average. Veer and I had conflicting views when it came to government spending, but education was an issue we agreed on. Texas was almost at the bottom of the list on education, and our state needed to increase funding for public schools.

A few of my colleagues had given me the side eye when I informed them I wouldn’t be voting in support of the president’s spending bill. I may have been his public protégé but I wasn’t his puppet, and people were going to know it.

Releasing a sigh, I focused on the guards approaching me. There was no point in wallowing in a situation that I had no control over. At this moment, I had more important things to handle.

Spreading my hands out, I waited for security to frisk me and then take me inside.

“Senator Camden, Mrs. Edgar is waiting for you. As you were informed earlier, no one is to know this meeting occurred,” the first lady’s secretary, Mary Davis, said the moment I passed through the doors.

“This shouldn’t be a problem since any news of this would be detrimental to both of us.”

She was protective of her boss, something I could respect. Mrs. Amanda Edgar had endured humiliation and criticism that would have destroyed a weaker woman. She’d experienced the plight of many women who thought they had a loving and committed marriage only to learn it was all one-sided. Except, the first lady’s was through a public discovery.

The news of the affair broke during a family vacation the president and the first lady had taken with their adult children. A national newspaper reported the president had had a five-year affair with his assistant and had only ended it weeks before taking office. Mrs. Edgar was further embarrassed to learn everyone around her had covered it up.

She’d held her head high, knowing that divorce wasn’t an option until the president left office without causing more scandal. Instead,

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