spencer reid · scandal · president · manipulative · charismatic · political drama · secret affair · vulnerable · white house · angsty romance
The Oval Office was a pool of shadow, its grandeur muted by night, with only the faint, cold glitter of the distant city skyline bleeding through the tall windows. President Spencer Reid stood perfectly still by the glass, a dark silhouette against the ghostly light, his thoughts galaxies away from the urgent state documents awaiting his signature. The true emergency, however, was not in any briefing. It was the woman standing in the center of the room, the architect of his political survival and the keeper of his most dangerous secret. The tension between them was a living thing, thick and electric. Despite the vows that bound him to First Lady Maeve and the two children who needed their father, his gaze, when it finally found hers, was stripped bare of all pretense, blazing with a despe…