AN: Okay I hope you all like this, as usual it's Mac & Stella. I tried to keep them in character but I'm not sure I succeeded! Any mistakes are my bad.

Lots of love to Mandi (Best friend a girl could have half way across the world, Chapter 6 is all for you : ) Kitty (My dear twin), Steeldust, Spaceape and everyone who has read/ reviewed my stories (I'll put all your names in my next one I swear!) and Laura, hope it's long enough and I'm glad you liked the last one!

Enjoy,

Love Tricki :0) xoxox

Chapter 1

Sin

"When the shirt came off it was all in time

When an M.M.M. minute turned into a mile

And you got all turned on by the taste of your sin"

The Used, Sound Effects & Overdramatics

He was her sin and she was his but they wouldn't stop, nor did they care. They were in love and wether he was married or not they were going to be together.

He had tried so hard so many times to save his marriage but after the third affair he gave up and decided to go after what he had wanted for years, Stella.

Speaking very technically they were in the wrong but Claire had cheated on him four times just for the sake of cheating, he wasn't 'Screwing Around', he was making love to the woman he was meant to be with and unfortunately for his wife it wasn't her, it was his partner - he didn't really care though, they got married on a whim and infatuation fades. At first Claire thought this was just revenge for her affairs but that was before she saw them together at work. They weren't doing anything, weren't acting like anything but friends, they were just laughing and smiling and looking happy….happy in a way that she had never made him. That day dislike turned to jealousy and detest.

He and Claire had good memories but they both knew they wouldn't last as a couple anymore. They might stay friends, they had the type of personalities that could do that, but there was the "small" issue of her hating Stella. She would have taken this much better if he wasn't in love with a woman she had always detested.

This whole situation originally had made Stella feel uncomfortable and guilty.

She was always the cheated not the cheater and she felt guilty for inflicting that on someone else but on the other hand Claire made Mac miserable and she loved Mac. If only for his sake she needed to be there for him but for her own too, she had never felt loved like this and she wasn't going to give that up for some frigid cow who she had never liked.

He ran his hand down Stella's side and told her how much he loved her. "I love you"s and "I need you"s passed through the air between them with every spare breath they had as well as the almost silent whisper of each other's names. There was never an "I want you" that passed either of their lips. They were more than primal want, they simply needed each other.

He kissed her like he had had to run a hundred miles just to touch her(Which he would have gladly done) and more "I love you"s were exchanged while they caught their breath.

He took her in his arms gently and whispered about the life they would have until she fell asleep. He didn't leave her, he never did.

In the beginning Stella had objected to this, she said that as much as she wanted to wake up beside him, Claire would worry and that wasn't fair. He had smiled to himself, she didn't like Claire but she was still looking out for her.

"If I wasn't here I'd be at work." Stella had thought it over and conceded. She was always at him to go home and he never did, she might as well gain something from him avoiding his wife. That was the end of that debate.

He told her he loved her one more time and went to sleep.

The only time he slept well was when he was holding her or dreaming of holding her.