TITLE: A Forever Future
AUTHOR: Clairisant
CLASSIFICATION: AJ/Other, Mac/Other, Gerald/Adel
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I am very sorry that I have not posted in such a long while, I have had health issues that have kept me from writing, but I am better now and back to my writing. I hope that you enjoy the new stories that I have coming your way. This one and four more are done and just waiting to be posted. Also I have surprised myselt, but there will be a third story in this series!
FEEDBACK: Would love to hear both good and bad feedback but please try to be kind and constructive. Clairisant
Chapter 1
Mac reminisced on the evening as she prepared for bed that night. The luau had been amazing, the food was great, and the dancing had been a lot of fun too. The part of the night that had been totally unexpected and still had her a bit unnerved had been meeting Trevor Benet the Admiral's future brother-in-law.
Trevor had approached Mac moments after she'd arrived, declaring that he had taken one look at her and had fallen in love at first sight, not only that, but by way of introducing himself he'd asked to know the name of the woman he hoped to marry! For some reason she had told him her name was Sarah, rather than her usual response of Mac, so for the rest of the evening when 'Sarah' had come out of his mouth it felt like a caress.
They sat next to each other during dinner and had even danced together several times in between all their conversation to get to know each other better. By the end of the evening Mac had given him her phone number and accepted a date to lunch the next day. Trevor had apologized that it couldn't be dinner, because his flight back to Hawaii was that evening. He had to report to duty Monday morning.
As she removed her clothes and placed them in the hamper, Mac tried to imagine what it was that Trevor believed he saw in her that made him think she was marriage material. Of course he couldn't be aware of her abysmal track record with men, but sadly, she was. How in the world could a man like Trevor Benet ever be interested in her once he found out?! She was sure that there would be several who would be glad to tell him all the 'oh-so-juicy' details, Harm and Webb just to name two.
Mac had discovered during the course of the evening that he was a very determined man. Why had she even agreed to go out with him tomorrow? Not that Trevor would have taken 'no' for an answer.
Dressing for bed, she wondered just how their date would go. What did he expect from her in such a short period of time? Did he think that he was persuasive enough to get her to agree to marriage in one date? After all he was leaving tomorrow night.
In a very rare feminine moment, her last thought before falling asleep was, 'What should I wear tomorrow?' She had very few 'date' clothes and the ones she did have weren't really suited for a lunch date.
Trevor wasn't the only Benet to feel a stirring of new love at the engagement party of AJ Chegwidden and Liiani Benet. The patriarch of the Benet clan had taken one look at a lovely woman getting out of a cab, and knew, that if he could talk her into taking on a man of his age that he might just have a chance at walking down the aisle a third time.
Adel Chegwidden was considered an old maid by some, but the fact that she had never married hadn't really ever bothered her. She had always felt an affinity for the land even when her twin brother had joined the Navy and had gone off to see the world. She had been content to stay at home on the family ranch.
She had inherited the ranch when their father had unexpectedly, and out of the blue, died of a heart attack while on a cattle drive. AJ had been on a SEAL operation at the time, and because of the secret nature of the mission, hadn't learned of the tragedy until after the funeral. Abigail Chegwidden had sadly followed her husband to the grave just three months later. The two of them had been married for twenty-seven years, right out of high school, and were still deeply in love with each other right up until Joseph's death. The doctor had said she'd had a heart attack, but Adel was sure it was from a broken heart. At least AJ had been able to come home for her funeral, even though he couldn't stay long. There had been no malice in his heart when the ranch had been left to Adel. After all, it was in her blood, and his ran Navy blue.
To be continued…..