Chapter 103

"You, seducing, him? Mac, I think you have things backwards here. I don't know who told you that, but you haven't done anything wrong," Harm said, pulling her over by the car. "Maybe now you're finally waking up, and ready to get out."

"Get out? Of my marriage? Harm, are you insane? I love AJ with all my heart, I have for eight years…I'll stay with him as long as he'll have me…I just wish that I hadn't gotten drunk and seduced him…he's the most honorable man I know, and to have done that to him…I feel like an ass!"

"I don't know who told you that story, but it's a lie, Mac. You haven't been drunk since Dalton was killed. I would have known, you would have told me. Someone is feeding you a line to keep you where you are. Go ask the Admiral, and make him tell you the truth!" demanded Harm, pulling her next to his car. "You're innocent, Mac, get out and come to me."

"Harm! I love him! Don't you ever listen to me any more? No matter what has happened, or what he feels, or doesn't feel, for me, that will not change my love for him. And what about our child? Would you take her as part of the package? I don't think so, Harm…"

"Mac, you and Angela should have been mine! I would take you both in a heartbeat! Angela is the child we had planned, and yes, I would love her as though she were mine. Please, Mac, come with me now. Bring the baby and forget about all this nonsense. It's the amnesia that has you confused. You're not in love with Chegwidden, and never have been. It's me you're in love with, darling," he said, shaking her gently. "Think, we have loved one another from the beginning, but I have been the foolish one. I see my mistake now, and I want you. Please, Mac, come with me and leave him."

"You're wrong, Harm, I do love him, and I will do anything to keep him. I have compared every man in my life to him and found them wanting. He may not love me, but I can love him enough for both of us. I should go back to Angel now…"

"You've compared me to him? You found me wanting? In what way, Mac? We've never made love, so how could you gauge my performance to his. Come back to my apartment and I'll show you what it is to be made love to by a real man," he smirked. "Have you ever made love to the man or can he even perform?"

"My god, Harm! What did I ever see in you? You can't even be a friend, how could you be anything else? I'm telling you that my marriage is in danger, and instead of sympathy or advice, you tell me to come to you for a roll in the hay and then suggest that AJ can't keep me happy sexually? Let me tell you something, Flyboy-that man is a better lover than ANY man I have ever been with!" She turned away from the man who had at one time been her best friend. Tears were flowing again as she climbed into the Escalade and drove off.

Mac drove to the nearest convenience store and bought a large box of diapers for Angela. She didn't want AJ to know she had been lying when she left the building. After spending nearly an hour crying her eyes out and still not coming up with any way to make things better in her life, she hit the drive-through at Beltway Burgers and picked up a burger for AJ and some fries. She knew that food was not up to his usual standards, but she was too distraught to go in anywhere fancier. It was really hard to accept that she had lost her best friend and realized that her husband didn't love her, all in one day. She prayed that Angela would have an easier life. Mac vowed that she would do her best to see that Angela never faced the problems that she had!

To be continued….