It had been a week since the President entered the White House and the Congress as well as the Senate expected his plan of change. The plan that he’d promise to execute during his campaigning. Richard had been working sleeplessly with the Chief of Staff to appoint the right people in the right positions and back Senators in their election. The Cabinet had already formed. The Vice President, Erik Collins, would arrive today to go through the plan and offer his opinion and counseling on it. Richard and Erik were good friends, aware of each other’s relationship of dependency.
“We need to do something big. Something innovative that will show the world why they voted for you, Mr. President.” Veronica Lee, the Chief of Staff, said noting down.“Yes. The worlds needs peace. Education and immigration are good side pieces but not what’s going to make it on the front page.” Erik agreed. Richard sat across from him in the couch, looking deep in thought. With conflict in Ukraine and the tensions of the globe rising appeasement was not enough.Alyssa stepped into the room quietly. Taking her place in the back of the room. Richard turned his head at the feel of her presence. “Energy is a major issue.” The counselor to the President added.Alyssa observed cautiously. She had ideas but wasn’t her place to express them. She’d learn to stay in her lane unless asked. “With the Covid Pandemic the need for a stronger nationalHealth system surged. The nation needs to throw money on its people. Peace can only be achieved through education, health and equality. We target the youth and minorities. Those strikes harder by the harsh reality of the present.” Richard spoke. Alyssa faintly smiled hiding her face by looking down.“And that’s how you’ll have every parent, activist and young person’s vote on your side.” Veronica assured with eyes filled with admiration.“I like it. It’s catchy.” Erik chuckled. “Mr. President is experiencing his honey moon face in the Oval room.” All laughed and Erik pat his shoulder before exiting with the rest of them.Alyssa cleared her throat. They hadn’t been alone in one week. She’d want to keep it that way if it wasn’t for the President’s safety. He stood up and walked to his desk leaning with his back against whilst sizing her up with his electric gaze. She felt her core burning. She brushed the thoughts away.“Mr. President, the UN conference on the Relief of the Tension between Cyprus and Greece in New York has established some new guidelines of protection.” She pulled the paperwork from under he shoulder and walked to pass it to him. “Homeland security has seen for the escort of other world leaders. However, yours is most important. Your agents will double to 40 one you’re there. Five of them, as usual, will be with you in the car, conference venue and outside your hotel room. The rest of them will venture around the perimeter.”“Will you be there?” He interrupted her. Alyssa pinned him with her glare. Her eyes begged him to remain appropriate.“Yes.” She replied and he let out a breath. Her eyes shifted back to the documents in his hands and she pointed out some concluding points.After about 15 minutes of offering more details and bearing with his invasive looks that made her body light up on fire, she was about to return to her office.“Aly…” He closed the distance between them, forcing them to proximity. His hand rose to caress her cheek and she leaned instinctively to it. Suddenly, the door opened and she jolted away from him putting enough space between them.Katherine entered the room.“Hey honey! Hey Alyssa!” She beamed at them. “I just wanted to inform you that we’re having dinner tonight with the US Supreme Court Justice, Elijah Grant. He wanted to thank you for his appointment.”“Mr. Grant?” The enquiry slipped out of my mouth. She didn’t expect him to select him. He was a Republican but had a long history in politics and the press and people loved him. “A most wonderful choice.” She reassured to hide the hint of surprise in my voice.“It’s okay Alyssa. Between us we can be true. We all very much preferred Ms Hosseini but the role of the President is to represent the people and the people have chosen.” Katherine kindly said and she admired her. She was an amazing First Lady already and this was just the start. She could see how Richard could have been head over heels for her. And how she looked at him, with an old love. They were partners. They were a team.“Thank you Katherine. Will see you later. I’m afraid Ms Pope is not done here and we have to get back to work.” Richard was colder than her, shutting her down. He did not have that political air about like she did. She knew how to smile, move, talk and breathe in sink.“Ok then. I shall leave you. Good bye Alyssa!” She waved and exited the room. Alyssa offered her a smile. She tried to be as genuine as she could. She looked her in the eyes while she undressed for her husband. Hypocritical. She was playing a role. She didn’t know where reality started and where the theatre ended.“I don’t have anything else to say to you, Mr. President. Now if you will excuse me.” She turned to leave but he grabbed her wrist stopping her in her tracks. She exhaled sharply. “We talked about this Richard.”“No Aly. You did.” He spat and she snapped at him, her eyes widened. She yanked her hand off his grip and threw the file on his desk. Then she turned on her heels and looked him dead in the eye.“You do not get to pull that drama with me. I have a career of my own in the White House and I will not be thought of as the woman who screwed her way to the top. So you better start behaving, Mr. President, or I will walk out of the White House right into the open doors of the CIA where the Director is retiring.” He didn’t speak. He raised his glare and sighed.She exited the office through the official exit and not the internal door. The two guards outside the door nodded at her presence. “If the President asks for me tell him I will be back in two hours.” They nodded again and she stalked towards the parking. Her phone rang. She picked it up and pulled it to her ear.“Alyssa.” Melissa Jeffords spoke her name. Melissa Jeffords was a close associate of Alyssa and also a U.S. Attorney. She has taken up the most serious criminal cases. “I need your help.“I’ll be there.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“There is suspicion that a certain group of Navy Officials is involved in the injection of heroin and opium to SEAL groups to advance their performance, especially with the operations in Syria and Iran.” Melissa told her and her heart was racing. She had experienced the Navy first hand and their special operations. God knows what advancement in their performance would mean. “The investigation has been deadlocked by the General. He dismissed the allegations as conspiracy theories. But we have…”“A soldier.” Alyssa interrupted her and she nodded. “A soldier whose brain is in pieces from the use of the drugs and his confession will not stand in any court. Melissa, you need transactions, apt evidence, their dealer. The Army has the monopoly of violence in a democratic regime. You cannot go against the second most powerful institution without evidence.”“I know that. That’s why I asked your help. You’re in the White House. Can you not feed the suspicions to the President? The General of the Armies will be shaken up by a meeting with the leader of the State. If the President implies that he is aware, the General will be more intimidated.” Melissa was right. But her and Richard were not in favor-asking terms. And further on Erik, Katherine, Lionel and every member of his counseling team would condemn with every political right the abuse of the leader of the Army.“I will see what I can do, Jeffords. If I don’t respond in 24 hours, drop the case for your sake and your family’s. The General is not a man to mess with.” She stood up and patted down her grey suit. With her bag in hand, she took out the pack of cigarettes and a lighter. “Good bye.”Alyssa walked down the street with her heart a little lighter since she left his office and stormed into her car. However, she still has work to do if she was going to get the Chief of Staff of the US Army or as briefly known the General to confess his crimes to her. This crime at least. Who knows how many he’d had to confess if she asked all of them. Patriotic crimes.She fished her phone out of her purse and turned her head slightly to nod at the two men following her. The one ring the limousine to come and they’d wait where they had dropped her off exactly. Alyssa found the contact of the Chief of Staff. She didn’t remember his name. It sounded bad but it was the truth. Fortunately for her, they know each other and he wouldn’t take it personally knowing her.She dialed his number and waited for his to answer as she took in her surroundings. She was 15 minutes away from the White House and half an hour from the closest Presidential safe house. If something were to happen she would h
Alyssa was pushing her panties up and patting her dress down when Richard unlocked the door. It had been almost an hour. Her desk was a mess and she hissed at him to not open the door until she got that fixed. “Help me.” She ordered and he did as told. The President of the US kneeled collecting documents at his mistress’s wish. That’s how much she had over him.She tidied the desk arranging the computer wires and the keyboard whilst Richard staffed the papers and pens and pencil cases cautiously. He knew Alyssa was an organization freak and he remembered to leave everything as it was. Her shoes had rolled off to the edge of the wooden desk leg and she was quick to slide her feet in there as he flanked the door open. Carl appeared unfazed and he nodded at Alyssa before escorting the President outside of the room.She sank to her seat and checked the time. She would have to meet with the General in an hour. That meant that Richard would already have resigned to the East Wing with his wi
Alyssa woke up next day in the warmth of her sheets at the sound of her alarm. It was 5AM. She was to get to the White House with the first ones and leave with the last ones. Everyday the House was checked for potential invasions, violations of the security protocols. She jumped into the shower and turned on the water running hot to cleanse the sins off her skin as images of the previous day played in her mind. Richard's face between her legs flashed in her mind and she closed her eyes burying her face under the pouring water. Soon enough she was out of the shower and in her bedroom picking out her outfit. She opened her closet and took out a white suit with a silver satin blouse inside. She put it on and paired it with black and white heels. She pulled her hair back in a high ponytail and hide her eyes behind her glasses. Alyssa carried mostly Tom Hilfiger. She took her favorite black and white bag and fished her phone from the covers. The limousine was waiting outside her house
Preparations were being made for the President’s trip to New York to the UN Headquarters. Alyssa had been buried in work the past week setting officers to their posts, spies to their hidden locations and snipers to every building surrounding the headquarters and the President’s hotel. They would all follow him everywhere along the way. She had organized a team of around 40 people to escort him with her in it too. She’d become his shadow for the following days.Alyssa strutted down the corridors of the White House with her phone on her ear mumbling orders for stakeouts and warehouses in New York as well as the booking of the whole hotel for the President. She’d settle for four out of the ten floors. She ordered already 20 of the escort team to travel there and check the facilities of the hotel, the exits, the rooms, everything.Richard was also closed off in the Oval Room with the Vice President, Chief of staff and head of international relations to prepare him for the conference. The
Alyssa stood on the South Lawn with her suitcase beside her gazing at the morning sky. The breeze caressed her skin and for the first time after long periods of hiding and living in the glimpses of stolen moments with Richard, she felt somewhat free. Her phone in hand, it dinged to tell her that the president was here. The jet had landed there waiting for them. She’d cried so much last night that her eyes had turned dry. She heard him from her office next door smashing glasses before he headed off to the East Wing, to his wife, to his official life. She wore a black right dress with her hair let down to fall on her shoulders. Her heels were replaced with boots so she could move more quickly if the safety of the President was compromised. The leader of the free world arrived and the Secret Service escorted him first to the jet. He looked aloof and that’s when she noticed the limp in his walk. He was drunk. It was 7AM. She followed and boarded shortly after him. Cal taking her suitcase
After they’d settle at the hotel, Alyssa went on to inform the press Secretary of White House of the President’s safe arrival in New York and send a few pictures of him smiling from her journalists connections in the city. She’d leave her suitcase on the side of her bed as she took out her laptop and work papers from her bag and put them on the office in the small living room of the hotel room. They’d put her in a junior suite. She was two floors down from the Presidential suite where Richard was. She looked at the time on her phone. 14 PM. She had time to take a shower and relax a bit before she needed to assemble the rest of the service agents to inform them about their placement in the Leaders of the World dinner the president had to attend. She took off her clothes and sighed in relief taking her bra off. Airplanes drained her. He had drained her. She stepped into the shower and let her anxiety and worries wash off and for the minutes she was under the water, she was free. After
It was currently 18 PM. Alyssa was fixing the last details of her appearance before getting ready to meet the President in the garage of the Plaza where they could leave from the back door so that the wave of journalists does not block their way out. The restaurant had been booked for the night.Alyssa would seat in another table in the back of the restaurant with Cal as her date. The rest of the team would be scattered in the exits and some inside the building. She was guessing that the rest of the leaders’ security staff would occupy different tables too. She wore a black sleeveless silky midi dress with a turtleneck neckline with a pair of silver heels and earrings. She pulled her hair in a low bun and glossed her lips.She grabbed her black Prada purse with her gun, taser and pocket knife inside as well as her badge that read her security clearance in the majority of US institutions should she need it. Of course phone and wallet were included. She put on her beige raincoat and ex
Monday arrived and with it the start of the conference. Leaders of the world met in the headquarters of the UN with their Ambassadors in the United States to discuss the issue of Maritime Security between Greece and Turkey that had caused rising tensions. Richard Davis, the president of the United States was discussing with his Ambassador the outline of his speeches as well as the political and legal stance he would take towards the issue. General Secretary of the UN engaged in some greetings. Alyssa essentially had a relatively free day in the city. With the headquarters being occupied by the majority of leaders, security would be of the highest protection and quality. Despite personal bodyguards, the UN’s agency service would see to the security and safety of the leaders and the building. Hal and the President’s personal team was with him in, seating in the back. “What if they ask me about the borders in terms of Maritime Law and the Economic Exploitation zone?” Richard asked his