Leaving Steven's room, Maia left Lois and her host spooning, Steven of course being the little spoon. This both amused her and pulled at her heart, as she had been the filling in their sandwich before wiggling out. The speed that the two, both fast asleep, found the body of the other was adorable.
She closed his bedroom door with gentle ease and headed to her own ensuite bathroom to shower. This was the first time she'd ever had cum inside her, and having had several hours with it inside her, she was looking forward to having it out of her. It made her feel quite odd feeling the... stuff... dripping down her leg. It might be that she would have it again, possibly even in only a few hours, but for now, she was desperate for a shower, and turned the heat to almost scolding temperatures, smiling and humming as her body warmed up.
Drying off, her short hair not needing a second towel, just a decent rubbing, she opened the bathroom door, steam escaping as quickly as possible, and as she turned off the bathroom light she didn't immediately spot the figure sitting on the end of her bed.
Finally spotting them, Maia jumped.
"Bloody hell Steven," she gasped in shock, "don't fucking do that." To her relief, she found the light switch and, as her eyes adjusted to the new light saw that she'd been mistaken. "Fuck!" She stared at the be-suited woman in surprise, unaware why Stephanie, Steven's PA would be sat on the end of her bed at, fuck, really? Two O'Clock in the morning.
"Hello Maia," Stephanie spoke calmly, I hope you don't me interrupting your evening. I just felt that we had something to talk about."
Going red, Maia flashed through anger, betrayal, worry, concern and, embarrassingly, lust. In her suit, Stephanie appeared quite masculine and butch, and while she preferred femininity, Maia found it extremely attractive on the PA.
"And what do we have to discuss?" Maia asked, refusing to be intimidated, continuing her drying and bed-time routine as normal, removing all her makeup, having been unable to see her face in the bathroom mirror, condensation covering the bathroom despite the fan's best efforts.
"I think the reason why people are able to buy Steven's services is a pretty good start." She delivered the line with the right amount of honesty, that while Maia began worrying which skeleton they'd unearthed, she appreciated the drama.
"If you're trying to blackmail me," she responded, "then you should probably have your facts straight." Makeup off, she began moisturising her face. "At no point have I allowed something like that."
"Oh don't worry," Stephanie spoke slowly, "I know that. You haven't the power to do so."
"Then why," Maia did her best not to snap, "her are you here?"
"Because, until a few days ago, you were shagging the person who did."
Still rubbing her face, Maia could feel her cheeks immediately turn bright red.
"I don't suppose there's any point lying to you," she eventually spoke, "I just want you to confirm her name, make sure you're not fishing."
"Kate Brannen." Stephanie answered calmly, "an MP for NZ Nation, dislikes immigration as a whole and has never wanted to pay for a man to be in the country, which was the only thing your party agreed with. "
Staring into the mirror, Maia felt both embarrassed and angry.
"Should I ask who gave up her identity?"
"What?" Stephanie asked with a laugh. "As your partner, or as the idiot who started taking bribes?"
"Let's start with the former."
"I'm not telling you." Dropping a file on the bed, the name 'Kate Brannen' stood out on the front page, next to a photo of Maia and her being rather intimate. "Neither for the former, nor the latter. But what I know is, you knew months ago that she was hiding this."
Her ears ringing, Maia felt completely blind-sided, having just enjoyed one of the most amazing shags of her life, to be caught like this... Fuck.
"I was in love," She admitted, removing her towel and finishing drying the last moist parts of her body, "up until a few days ago anyway."
"What happened?" Stephanie asked out of interest.
"Tell me where you got this information, and maybe I will." Maia countered.
Her head tilted, her eyes twinkling, Stephanie and Maia exchanged a smile. "Now you know that's not going to happen. Your secret however will probably end up on page twenty-three of a gossip magazine sometime in the future, so why not give me an early scoop?"
With a long, drawn out sigh, Maia faced Stephanie, her body naked as she stood before her. "It's annoying to think that's all a politician's relationship is due, the middle pages of a shitty magazine."
"Might be worth more if you're still in power." Stephanie pointed out.
Laughing, Maia nodded. "Aye, you might be right."
"Want to tell me about your ex?"
"Absolutely not," Maia responded, but then softened her tone, "but will I? Yes, I suppose I will. I owe her no favours, so what benefits do I get from keeping her secrets?" Sitting near the top of the bed, as far as she could get from Stephanie, she continued. "The last three years she's informed me I'm her dream girl, desperate to start a family, having lost her boy in the pandemic. Turns out, she's been fucking half of her constituency, and I wish I meant that figuratively. I've had test results, somehow, miraculously, I don't have any STDs, but you know what else I didn't get? An apology. That bitch thinks that what she did was completely alright because, and I fuck you not, "we're not married." Fuck me, if this isn't the same woman who, at the start of our relationship, complained her son's father shagged around while she was pregnant, outside of wedlock, obviously."
Tears were rolling down Maia's face, but Stephanie sat there calmly, entirely unmoving.
"And how did that make you feel?" She asked politely.
Laughing, Maia shot a glance of pure hate her way. "How the fuck do you think?"
"Probably more angry knowing you'd covered up for her incompetence on regular occasions," Stephanie said nonchalantly, "especially if your party leader found out what you were doing. Imagine if she knew that you were hiding information that would undoubtedly give you three more years in charge? Even worse now you're tainted with it too."
The silence that followed was the answer that Stephanie had wanted. This woman was fucked three ways to Sunday, but it meant that she would be desperate, which meant she'd either try to be smart or stupid. Maybe both.
As Maia lay back on the bed as nude as the day she was born, she felt tired, and sore. Both physically and mentally, the former from being fucked relentlessly by Stephanie's boss and his lover, the latter from all the bullshit she went through day in, day out, both as a politician and still being a Māori. Even though women were now equal, she was still a minority, even with all these motherfuckers telling her what to do in her own country. Who the fuck did these Pakeha think they were?
"I can see exactly what you're thinking," Stephanie finally spoke, "fucking white people eh? Foreigner's getting involved in our country's business. And I'd bloody love to go back in time and stop our ancestors being raped, or selling their bodies to sailors for food, or infighting with each other, selling off each other's land. But then you'd have all the goddamn men back, and you would be stuck in your mother's house looking after all your brothers." Seeing Maia's head jerk up, Stephanie couldn't help but laugh. "You think I didn't do a background check motherfucker? I know you were beaten down, I know you're still angry at the world." Without any warning, Stephanie jumped up to the top of the bed and mounted Maia's naked form. "Fucking do something about it." Trying to push herself free, Maia tried to slap her assailant, to find her wrists caught and pushed down onto the bed, Stephanie bending over her.
"Fuck do you think I'm doing?" She cried, "I'm the Minister of fucking education. I'm the highest-ranking Māori minister!"
Looking down at her, the PA/ Bodyguard couldn't even pretend to hide her contempt.
"And you're proud of that?" Moving so their faces were almost touching, Stephanie whispered, "There's about eight other people in this country who could sack you without a goddamn thought. And you're fucking proud? This is Aotorea, and you're still fighting a war against men, when you should be fighting a war against everyone else. There are roughly ten thousand men left alive in the whole world, but two and a half million non-natives on our goddamn Islands."
"Immigrants you mean," Maia found strength, "like your fucking boss?" This seemed to get the other woman's attention, as she sat up straight at his mention, although continuing to hold her arms tight.
"Steven?" Stephanie laughed in a way that sent chills down Maia's spine. "He's harmless, a bit preoccupied with himself but, like it or not, in the past few days even he's figured out how corrupt your country is. He's also a possible benefit to the Māori."
Confused, the minister's face went blank. "What are you talking about?"