Chapter 66

Mac woke to find that Angela was awake and about to start fussing for her evening feeding. She also saw that AJ was asleep in the chair near her bed and didn't want to wake him. Pushing the call button for the nurse, she put a finger to her lips when the nurse came in with the bottle, so she wouldn't wake AJ. The nurse handed the baby to Mac, as well as the bottle, and once she was sure Mac was doing okay, left them together.

She could still not quite take it all in. Here she was, with everything that she had ever wanted in life and she could not remember how it happened. Looking down at Angela, she grinned. Well, she knew how this happened, but wished she could remember making love with her…husband! Her gaze fell on AJ and she sighed. She had loved him for so long and now it looked like he had returned those feelings too. She only wished that the doctor had not told him her memory should come back on its own. She had so many questions!

Just as she finished feeding Angela, the door to the room swung open and a woman entered. Mac motioned her to be quiet, so the stranger stepped over to the bed with the clipboard she was carrying before whispering to Mac, "Ma'am, I am from Records and just need to get this birth certificate signed."

"Do you need both of us to sign it?" Mac asked.

"No, just one of you would be fine."

Looking up at the woman, Mac asked if she could hold the baby while she signed the forms, she was too tender to lay Angela in her lap. The woman readily agreed and the switch was made, baby for clipboard. Mac filled in the mother's name: Sarah Mackenzie-Chegwidden, for the father, she paused and then with an evil gleam wrote out his full name, Albert Jethro Chegwidden, and then the baby's name, Angela Beatrice Chegwidden. The time of birth and all other relevant information had already been filled in. Once again, the switch was made and the woman thanked Mac and left.

When AJ woke from his nap he grinned a bit self-consciously at Mac when he saw she was awake. "I just finished feeding her, I am afraid I left the messy job for you. I'm still not able to move around enough to get her diaper changed," she said apologetically.

"No problem," he said, getting up and taking the baby from Sarah. He quickly and efficiently changed Angela's diaper.

Mac looked on and said, "You do that very well."

He laughed, "Well, I had some recent practice with Little AJ and Baby James. At least this young lady doesn't have a fire hose you have to watch out for! Can't tell you how unpleasant it is to get caught like that!" They both laughed over that image, as AJ tucked Angela back into her bassinet.

"AJ, you must be exhausted from being here all the time. You should go home and get a good nights sleep tonight."

"We'll see," was all he would say.

"Which is your way of putting me off and means that you won't do it!" she pouted playfully.

"You know me too well, Sarah."

"I hope I know you well enough to believe that you love Angela's name."

"Why is that, my love?"

"Because I just signed the birth certificate while you were sleeping."

"What?"

"I hope that's okay, AJ? You do like her name, don't you?"

"Yes, of course I like her name, but how did you sign it?"

"Oh, you mean me!" she giggled a bit, "I played it safe and signed it Mackenzie-Chegwidden. Is that what I did, hyphenate our names?"

He was about to correct her when he remembered Skaggs saying not to help her remember in any way. So he let her assume she was right. "I tried to tell you how tired you would get writing out two long names like that!" It wasn't until later that he realized that he needed to do some quick planning. Mac had used their real names on the birth certificate and while that might blow their cover, which was the least of his worries at that point.

If it got back to anyone at home that Mr. and Mrs. Chegwidden had had a baby, things could get real complicated! And how was he going to handle Sarah being released from the hospital? When she was told they couldn't take their baby with them!

To be continued….