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"Oh, Mrs Hamilton, Junior’s with his dad, I think"

"Where?"

"The West Wing"

I head over and greet Portia, worried Matty rins and motions to the door "You’ll find them both there, Mrs Hamilton Also, Alison is on her way--oh, there she is The president wanted a farin, amused, and step into the Oval Office And there he is, the Ruler of the Modern World, looking out the , arms crossed, but he uncrosses them as he turns He sets his hands on the desk before hi--the gaze of the most powerful man in the world He smiles at"Mr President"

"Mrs Hamilton" He starts to round the desk

"You wouldn’t happen to knohere a rather restless, very handso, he shakes his head and lets his eyes fall to his desk

Alison is suddenly behindas Matt Jr peeks froet out from under your father’s desk," I chide

Alison snaps a few pictures

"But I don’t want to It’splace," Matt Jr says

"We’ll make a tent in your room, or in the Red Roo place there"

"But Dad won’t be there It’s no fun without Dad"

Matthew laughs and I roll lancing at

He looks atmy lower lip He leans his dark sable head to me as he brushes his thumb over my lip to make me release it "I want to kiss that lovely lip"

I ease back to look at hi me with your eyes," I whisper

"To hell with it My rabs my face and kisses me It’s a quick, dry kiss, PG-13 rated rather than a triple-X kiss, but Matty grins and raises his arms so that we’ll scoop him up Matt scoops him up in his arm and tells Alison, "Catch hi as she starts clicking

"Jack, come here, boy" Matt whistles to Jack, and I’m shocked to see hioodness" I laugh now, and as Jack sits before us, we all turn to Alison’s carin, little Matt is s--still because of this man, after all these years No, we don’t live in a fairy-tale world, but between all the bad things, there are these ood Who we love How hard How true Which is e cling to every reood to steer us back, to find the path to where ant to go Where we deserve to be Happy Free And loved