“Have you been avoiding me, Em?”
“Wow, Peter! Nothing like cutting to the chase.” Of course, Peter Matthews never followed the rules as a boy, so why should he be any different as the President?
“There’s my name at last. That’s a good sign.”
“I haven’t been avoiding you, Peter.” She offered his name carefully and distinctly. She was a grown woman and could call him by his name without becoming unglued.
“My current job, at your request—”
“And you’re bitter about that.”
Not something she intended to admit to her Commander in Chief so she put her mental head down and continued.
“—at your request, is to serve the First Lady. I expected to see the two of you together more often.” She’d feared and hoped she’d see him more often. “But as that isn’t the case, I simply haven’t seen you. And,
