Chapter 11
"Do you have any idea what it will do to her if she spots you? Just because you let your hair grow some and you have that scruffy mustache, don't think she won't know you. That is one smart lady!" Clay stated.
"Then I'll make sure she doesn't see me, but I will see her and our son!" AJ responded.
"Your son won't be born for three months!"
"You've never been an expectant father, have you Webb?"
"Not that I know of!" he smirked. "Why?"
"Because there is nothing more beautiful in the world than the woman you love carrying your child."
"Be that as it may, how are you going to make sure she doesn't see you?"
"She's moved into my house, right? I can get in there unseen and unheard, I can see her while she is sleeping."
"And if she hears you and wakes?"
"She won't hear me, I was a SEAL, we aren't heard unless we want to be."
"Fine, but I go with you, to make sure you don't 'want to be heard'!" Webb informed him. David was about to protest when Clay added, "Take it, or leave it!"
"She better not hear you then!"
"I'm a spook! We're even more stealthy than SEAL's." He received a snort in response from the SEAL.
Late that night both men dressed completely in black crept up to the house. AJ found his key he kept hidden in a loose brick and unlocked the door. As he walked in, he stood for a moment, enjoying the feeling of being home. Clay, not paying attention, bumped into him. So much for the nice feeling of being home. Glaring at Clay he turned and Dammit ran up to greet him.
He smiled again, even with the changes in him; she recognized him and was overjoyed to see him. AJ was glad that he had trained her well and she had not barked when she came up to him. Patting her on the head, he gave her a hand signal to go and lay down, then walked down the hall to his bedroom and went inside. There lying on the bed with just a sheet covering her body was Sarah. She was so beautiful she took his breath away. He could feel Clay at his side staring down at her to. Angrily he turned to Clay and hissed, "Get out and let me be alone with her for a few minutes."
Clay glared back, but left the room. When he was gone, AJ's gaze went back to the woman in his bed. As he stared lovingly at her, she opened her eyes!
"Care to explain how you're still alive, AJ?" she asked, lying there in the dark room. "Why didn't you let me know?"
"How did you know I was here?"
"I heard Webb bump into you in the living room. Are you going to answer my question?"
"You weren't to know I was here. I just wanted to see you one last time," he said with a sigh.
"Why, AJ? I thought you said you loved me. Was that all a lie too?" she asked. He could hear the silent tears in her voice and it tore at his heart.
"No, it was not a lie, I love you more than life itself, but I have a new identity now and am going away. I just had to see you, just one last time," she could hear the anguish in his voice too.
"Can't I go with?" she asked. "Please, convince Clay to take me and the baby away with you so we can all be together."
"I can't do that to you, Sarah! You have your career and life here, I just wanted to come and see you one last time. And maybe just one more thing..." he trailed off as if afraid to ask.
"What, AJ?"
His hand hovered over her belly where the baby grew, and he quietly asked, "May I touch him? Please?"
"I don't see why not, he is your son," Sarah replied, as she slid down the sheet leaving her naked body shining in the moonlight.
To be continued….
