Chapter 6

Jordan had been pleased when her father began dating LaVon Trask. Although she had played a rather naughty joke on him when she had pretended to set him up with Clara Rose, she knew he hadn't dated much at all since her mother's death and hoped that he could find some happiness other than just running his bar.

LaVon was the widow of Chuck Trask, the abusive husband and murderer, that had been killed in the subway trying to flee from police. She had been hesitant to start dating Max after such a bad experience with Chuck, but her daughter wanted to see her mother happy, just as Jordan did with her father, and had encouraged LaVon to take a chance with Max.

Everyone was a bit surprised at how quickly their romance progressed, but you need only to look at the two of them together to see how in love they were. He proposed after a very short courtship and LaVon happily accepted. The wedding was set for the end of July so Jordan would have had the baby by then. Her due date was July 9th.

LaVon's daughter Tuyen was moving on with her life just as she had encouraged her mother to do after her step-father's death. She had moved out of her mom's house and had gotten a small apartment near the campus where she was teaching. She had even started to accept invitations to go out for coffee. Dating was still a scary proposition even if it was on a casual date.

Unfortunately the romantic news from VA was not as good as it was in Boston. Jordan's Aunt Meredith had been up to her old tricks again. Against all odds Jordan had hoped that this time her aunt would be smart enough to keep hold of Admiral Chegwidden with both her hands. She hadn't brought the four other fiancée's to Boston to meet her brother and niece so Jordan had hoped this time she would really go through with the wedding. But just last week Meredith had called in tears to say that AJ had broken up with her. It took some major digging on her part, but Jordan finally got her aunt to admit that the reason he had broken up with her. He had discovered her Spanish Professor and herself in her bedroom. Meredith had left the details to Jordan's imagination when she would say no more. She did, however, beg Jordan to intercede on her behalf with AJ. Meredith claimed 'he likes you so!'

Jordan had countered with, "He may have liked me Aunt Meredith, but he loved you! If you didn't have any luck getting him to take you back why do you think he would listen to me!? And honestly what were you thinking?! A military man who puts honor and duty above all else and you cheat on him?! I am surprised he would even talk to you again let alone take you back!"

That was when Meredith admitted that while he hadn't said he wouldn't take her back, he wasn't returning any of her calls, either at work or home. She brightened when she told Jordan that the next day she was going to go to his office and plead with him to forgive her!

Jordan was about to tell her aunt that it wasn't a very good idea to confront him at work, but before she could, Meredith had hung up the phone.

The next afternoon her aunt had called her at work to tell her how badly the visit had gone. That was when Jordan decided to call the man who would now never be her uncle. She had no plans at all to plead her aunt's case. In fact, she admired the Admiral for sticking to his guns and not forgiving the betrayal. Instead, what she wanted to do was to let him know that she liked and respected him and if he would allow it, she would like to remain in touch with him.

Even over the phone Jordan could hear how much AJ was hurting. The amazing thing was that even though it had been her ant that had caused his pain AJ had said he would like to remain in contact with Jordan. She was very happy about that, but knew enough to keep the news from her Aunt Meredith!

To be continued…