Kayla
He was such an egotistical jerk and I seriously could not figure out why he wanted me to be his assistant. Since taking on the added responsibilities Matthew had been the definition of a jerk. He was bossy, rude and arrogant. He didn’t care if I was left in the office until all hours of the night and I felt like he really didn’t care what my opinion was on anything. I didn’t need a guy like that around at all.
Everyone in the office was pissed off that I got the assistant job when Matthew announced it, so for a week I had been dealing with their snide remarks and rudeness. Even when Matthew yelled at me and was a jerk in front of everyone; they still talked about me and said I deserved it because I didn’t know what I was doing.
I seriously felt like I was close to just leaving my job, leaving Matthew and moving onto something less stressful. I couldn’t take it anymore and all his snide smiling was starting to piss me off as well. He thought he could just look at me and I would melt, but he was being a total jerk to me, it didn’t work like that.
My focus had changed totally. Maybe it would be best to just have a professional relationship with Matthew, especially if I was going to be his assistant only. We could move on and just be friends and co-workers; nothing more than that.
As I stormed out of his office my hands shook out of anger. I couldn’t believe he didn’t see how he had been treating me. Or maybe he saw it and just didn’t care? Maybe he was purposely being a total jack ass? I didn’t know at all but the Matthew I had met in Chicago was long gone and I didn’t really like the one that was left behind.
“Anna, do you want to come over and have dinner and chat or anything tonight?” I said via text.
“Sure, but can I bring my boyfriend? I know he’d love to see your place.”
She had a boyfriend? Man, I didn’t want him to come over to my house; I just wanted someone that I could bitch about my job with. But I didn’t want to turn Ana away; she was the only one of my friends who seemed to have free time and could come over when I was overwhelmed.
“I’d love to meet him. I’ll see you around eight o’clock?”
“Sounds good, see you then.”
I really liked Anna; she was really put together and focused on her career in Washington D.C. She also understood the male and female dynamic in Washington and had calmed me down on more than one occasion when I felt like Matthew was being a total jerk.
There was a feeling of obligation that I had with Matthew now that I was his assistant that I had not had before. It didn’t make things any better that he had paid for my apartment for entire year also. Although I was pretty sure he would still let me keep it even if I left the job.
As soon as five o’clock hit, I darted out of the office and down the street to the grocery store. I didn’t want to talk to Matthew and I certainly didn’t want to be left alone with him in the office. The only way to be certain that I could avoid him was to get out of the office before he even thought about leaving.
I grabbed some simple spaghetti ingredients and made my way back to my apartment. The one thing that had made my life really happy had been the apartment Matthew was paying for me. It reduced my two hours of commuting time to about twenty minutes, plus it was so much more fun to have people over to my house. Although everyone seemed pretty busy with their jobs in the last few weeks.
As I cooked the spaghetti and cleaned my apartment up I couldn’t wait to see Anna and even to meet her new boyfriend. It felt very grown up to be having a couple over to my house instead of just my friends; I even put out some real dishes on the table for us to eat at.
The knock at the door came and I rushed to answer it and welcome my friend and her boyfriend. I certainly couldn’t have expected what I found at my door.
“Hey, Anna…” I started to say before I realized it was Matthew at my door.
“Not Anna.”
“Shit, Matthew, they are going to be here any second. You have to leave.”
“Tell them to leave, I want to see you. I want to spend some naked time with you,” Matthew said as he stepped into my apartment and tried to kiss me.
I pushed him away and started to close the door as I heard the elevator door down the hall opened up. Quickly I pulled Matthew into my apartment and shut the door.
“You have to hide, get in my bedroom.”
“If you insist,” he said with a smile on his face. “Just send them away and we can enjoy your delicious dinner. I’m starving.”
“Go. Go. Go,” I said as I pointed to my bedroom. “And shut the door.”
Just as Matthew got to my bedroom, Anna knocked on my front door. I took a couple deep breaths and then opened the door to greet them. I tried to pretend like nothing at all was going on.
“Anna!” I said as I hugged my friend. “This must be the boyfriend?”
“Yep, this is Todd.”
“It’s nice to meet you Todd, come in, come in. I made spaghetti.”
I knew that Matthew was going to get pissed off that I invited them in, but I wasn’t about to cancel my night with my friends because he randomly decided he wanted to get laid. He needed to know that I wasn’t willing to be at his beck and call whenever he felt like it.
“Kayla, I just can’t get over how beautiful your apartment is,” Anna said as she walked toward the balcony. “Oh, Todd, you have to see the view from her bedroom balcony; it’s amazing.”
I heard her say the words but it took me a second too long to realize she had turned and went straight for my bedroom.
“Oh, um Anna…it’s a mess in there,” I said as I tried to stop her.
I came around the corner from the kitchen to my bedroom door and looked anxiously throughout the room as I watched Anna and Todd go to the balcony. There was no way Matthew could fit under the bed, so I looked in the bathroom to see if he was there. Finally I saw that my closet was slightly opened and figured he must have hid in there.
Silently I laughed to myself at the thought of the Illinois State Senator hiding in my tiny closet. It made me extremely happy though and I probably kept Anna and Todd in my room longer than I should have; purely because I enjoyed the idea of him in my closet.
“You should look off to the left, you can see the White House on a clear night,” I said as I walked over and shut my closet all the way.
After about ten minutes of talking on the balcony we returned to the dining room and ate dinner. I shut the bedroom door on our way out to allow Matthew the ability to relax a little while he was stuck in there. I assumed he was going to be pretty damn angry with me when I finally let Anna and Todd leave.
Our dinner lasted well into the evening and by the time I said good-bye to Anna and Todd I was sure that Matthew was going to be livid with me. I gingerly opened my bedroom door and expected to find him lying on my bed or relaxed in the new side chair I had in the corner. But Matthew was nowhere to be found.
“Matthew,” I said as I looked around. “Where are you?”
“The closet door doesn’t open from the inside,” I heard Matthew say firmly.
“Oh, my God,” I said as the laughter started uncontrolled. “You’ve been in the closet all night?” I said as I opened the door.
But my laughter didn’t calm when I opened the closet door, because what I found was Matthew standing totally naked inside my tiny four foot wide closet that was stuffed with clothes.
I doubled over with laughter. The kind of laughter that you know is wrong, but you just can’t stop. The kind of laughter that had tears flowing so hard down my face I had to wipe them from my eyes.
“I’m so going to get you for this,” Matthew said with a smile on his face as he slowly started to walk toward me.
I ran from the bedroom into the living room and positioned myself behind a chair as I waited for him to come after me. I still couldn’t stop laughing at the idea of him standing naked in my closet for the last two hours. It almost made up for him being a jerk earlier in the day.
“Oh, I’m sorry for laughing. But you looked so adorable standing naked in my closet,” I said through continued laughter.
Matthew walked straight toward me and picked me up over his shoulder with such precision that I continued to laugh.
“Why were you naked?” I said through my laughter.
“I wanted to surprise you after you turned them away. I had just taken my clothes off in the bathroom when I heard your friend say they wanted to look on the balcony. Luckily I ducked into the closet when I did because they came into your room just as I shut the door.”
“Oh… my…God… I can’t stop laughing,” I said through my tears as Matthew dropped me onto the bed.
“I’ll make you stop laughing.”
I watched him suspiciously as he reached for my legs and pulled me down the bed toward him. He made quick work of getting my pants off and then pulled my shirt up over my head and wrapped it around my wrists.
He held my wrists above me as he moved his fingers up and down my body. His eyes devoured me as it looked like he was trying to decide just what he wanted to do with me. But he was right, I had stopped laughing.
To my utter surprise, Matthew leaned down and kissed me so gently and sweetly that I got caught off guard. The kiss reminded me so much of when I had first met him in Chicago. He was gentle and kind; but most of all he was genuinely there with me in the moment.
Our lips passionately kissed in a love embrace that made me want Matthew more than I could have imagined only a few hours before. He pulled back and looked at me with the intent of loving me that night. Not fucking me, but actually making love; I was drawn in with all I had.
As angry as I had been at Matthew, it was because of his distance that I pulled back. It was because I felt jaded by his need to have me help him with his strategic plan. I had been angry because I knew he had once thought of me as a love interest and not an employee and I desperately wanted that feeling back.
His body perched on top of mine was molded perfectly with my curves. As he moved inside of me I moved my body with his in the utmost of perfection. Our thrusts were slow, deliberate and sensual. Instead of purely being about our bodies, there was an emotion between us that I had never felt with Matthew before.
I really didn’t know what had changed for him or why; but I liked the Matthew that I had in bed with me at that moment. That Matthew was the one I wanted to keep around and the one I would do anything for. With the White House event coming up the next day, I felt so much better with the idea of helping him with his plans.