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Matt’s expression is a e and disbelief

"I’m sorry" I reach out and take his hand "Do you want to …"

"I need some air"

Matt stands and steps out of the roo after hihts andorry

Matt comes back shortly after

He seeht for the phone

Matt calls my father over He was a friend of his father for many years, and I suppose he trusts that whatever he discussed with my dad will never leave the roo room adjacent the Oval as Matt asks him questions about his father

"But you never knew of his interests outside of policy and the White House?"

"I knew--suspected--soed the year before he was killed He set new life injected"

"Could this have anything to do with a woman?"

"Possibly I don’t know for sure I always assu as president, and he’d be able to make it up to his family now"

"Thank you, Robert"

Matt seems calm, but only someone who knows hi in his shoulders

"Charlotte, I’d like to talk to your father alone for aeyes, nodding quietly as I go and hug my father "Thank you, Dad" I kiss his cheek and he patsabout the way Matt asksto tell my dad about us It seems in character that he’d want to let hi between us before we eventually move forward and tell the word

Twoabout us--for when ot a spark of oodbye

Matt contacts the FBI next I’mund Cox arrives to the Oval, Matt asksbronze eyes meet mine, and they look crisp andine that his father possibly had an affair what he was president Especially considering he neglected his , but for another wo to Cox e found, Matt slides the FBI files across his desk