President's Girlfriend 03 - A Scandal Is Born by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe
Language: eng
Format: epub

NINE

Although Belle, Dutch’s secretary, had been told by Allison that the president was not to be disturbed, his secretary relied on his other edict too: that his wife never had to be announced when she needed to see him, regardless of whom he was entertaining at the time. So she wasn’t announced, and walked right in.

Gina’s sudden entrance into the Oval Office allowed her to see what was happening before any reactions could take place. She saw this woman, this incredibly attractive, bosomy woman, sitting on her husband’s lap. She saw that this woman’s hand was on her husband’s face. And when Dutch stood her off of him, and the two of them were now standing up, she could see that his midsection had definitely reacted to that woman’s contact.

Gina then closed the door, her eyes unable to stop staring at her husband. Dutch with a woman on his lap? And that woman wasn’t her? It seemed surreal to her, unbelievable even though she had witnessed it with her own two eyes. She knew he used to be a player, Roman and everybody else she knew loved to remind her of that very fact, as if womanizers never really changed their spots. But she knew Dutch. And she knew he would never do something like that to her. But seeing him like this, in an obviously compromised position, made her less sure of him than she’d ever been.

Belle had warned her before she entered that he had company, and she had expected he would be in a meeting of some sort as he usually was, but she never expected this. And suddenly she felt alone, and lost.

Dutch felt as if everything about his life right now seemed upside down. Especially with the press commenting about his child every night as if they had a right, and insinuating that his highly moral wife was somehow unfaithful to him. They were calling Gina unfaithful, when he was always the screw up.

And the thought of it, of the way they were treating her, was eating him alive. But now his inability to stop a scene before it unfolded caused him to mistreat her too; caused him to disrespect her too.

His heart dropped.

“Come here, Gina,” he said to his wife.

Gina hesitated before moving toward Dutch and his companion, her bright brown eyes never once looking at the companion, but staring at Dutch. How could he explain this away, she wondered? Women didn’t just sit in a married man’s lap. And more to the point, a married man didn’t just allow a woman to sit in his lap. What other explanation, she wondered, could there possibly be?

When Gina reached Dutch’s side she fully expected him to pull her in his arms and apologize effusively, or some other such display of remorse and affection, but Dutch didn’t even touch her. He, instead, looked her dead in the eye.

“She was in my lap,” he said, “and I should not have allowed that to happen.”

Yes, it shouldn’t have happened, Gina thought, finding it so obvious that she wondered why he mentioned it.

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