Chapter 1 - He's a Beast

Tara's POV

Entering the room, my eyes grew wide in shock to see a naked woman lying on his bed. 

Love bites covered her body.  

Rage filled my heart replacing the concern I had for Andrei Kanovski. 

I couldn't contain my anger and I blurted out. "He's a beast!" 

I heard Regina, the nurse with me, gasped in trepidation.

Not far from us, the President who was standing by the French window, peering outside heard my words as I spoke loudly in anger, turned and like a prowling lion he approached me

For a short while I froze when I saw the scratches on his chest, shoulders and biceps.   

Our eyes met. My purple eyes were arrested and held captive by his gray ones. 

Calmness was all I could see in his eyes. The calmness before a storm.

He took steps approaching me. Eating up the distance between him and me. 

I stood my ground. And faced him head on. 

He didn't remove his gaze away from me and came close to me. 

So close that I could feel his warm breath on my face as he looked down on me while I was looking up at him. 

I could smell his minty breath and his clean masculine scent. 

"Mr. President, what you did to her was inhumane," I said but gulped when he lifted his hand and held my chin with his thumb and forefinger. 

"Do your duty, soldier," he growled at me, making me tremble inside but I never showed my fear. 

I turned and began to treat the unconscious woman. 

For about an hour, we cleaned her and applied ointment on the red marks on her skin. 

We just finished applying ointment on the marks on her body when she woke up. 

Her eyes were wide in shock and were almost popping out of her eye socket. 

"What are you doing here?" She said harshly and got up from the bed. 

"Did you come to seduce Andrei?" Hostility filled her eyes and she eyed me like she was going to attack me like an angry lioness whose cubs had been taken away.  

I was utterly taken aback by her and that made me unable to speak. 

She pushed me, ran to the president and threw herself to him. 

"Andrei, let's do it again," she purred as she fondled the president's biceps. 

Mixture of disbelief and embarrassment swirled in my chest like a tornado.

Stupid. I scolded myself for acting impulsively and standing for her when she wasn't actually a victim. 

This made me unable to restrain myself from cackling.

The woman looked at me dangerously, and if look could kill I would have been lying on the floor, dead. 

"Are you jealous that the president bedded me?" This woman was getting on my nerves as she provoked me.

"Hah! Not all women fantasize about him. You can have him all to yourself. Goodbye," I turned to Regina whose face contorted in fear. 

"Let's go," I picked up my medical kit and pulled Regina out of the room.  

I have already given her a piece of my mind and there's no need to linger in that room. 

So what if the president took a fancy to her?

I would rather not let the president look at me than to experience what that woman had gone through. 

I must admit that his face could take a woman's breath away. 

Not to mention his body. 

Delivering his speech clad in a military shirt and trousers this afternoon. He was hot. 

Yes, our nation's president is just 31 years old. He was elected to the office of the president when he was 27 years old.

His young, handsome and hot. 

Nevertheless, I'm not interested in a man like him. 

Heading back to where we came from Regina who had been quiet for a long time began to talk. 

"Are you shocked a while ago?" Regina's question made me halt and I looked at her dubiously.

Was she not shocked at all? 

 "Are you not?" I asked with a frown. 

"Why are you shocked?" Regina asked me instead of answering me.

From what I see in her expression she was not. 

"I heard that the president's sexuality was in question because being young and handsome, he was not seen with any woman apart from his personal assistant who was his family friend," Regina nodded understanding my point. 

"I have been in the military before he became the president," Regina said. 

Regina was five years older than me. But I have a higher rank than her, as I was a general surgeon. 

I joined the military a year ago. So she must know more about him than me. 

"Whenever he visits a military base, the generals would present him a woman every night while he stayed in the camp. But this thing was kept under wraps." 

I was appalled hearing such a revelation. 

A flurry of disgust swept my chest. 

Actually, I was on a one week leave of absence starting today and was about to leave the base.

But I heard of the president's surprise inspection. 

Thus, I decided to stay in the base even though I was on leave. 

I admired him being a good president. He did a lot of good things for our nation. 

I was so excited to see him in person. 

But it didn't cross my mind that he was a libertine.