Chapter 60

Jordan had just gotten back to sleep after being up and down all night with a colicky baby and seeing her husband off to work. Answering with a groggy, "Hello," she was unprepared for the angry growling voice that didn't bother with a greeting, but instead demanded, "Is AJ there?! If he is let me talk to him now! I've been trying to track him down half the night!"

"I was up half the night as well Aunt Merry, and I am really not in the mood for you to come off sounding like my boss when I have come in late to work! AJ had a cell phone, why haven't you called him on that?" Jordan countered her Aunt's demands.

"When he sees my number, he ignores my calls. That was part of the reason that when I found out he would be here for the wedding, I had to come. But he wouldn't listen to what I had to say last night!"

"But he went off with you even though he didn't want to, because you had something to say to him! I am sure AJ is the kind of person that would hear you out."

"He wouldn't believe that I loved him and wanted to get back together with him! That is why I need to reach him before my return flight tonight!"

As tired as she was, Jordan didn't even try to hide her snort of distain for her Aunt. "After cheating on him and then admitting you had done the same thing multiple other times, you go off to spend the entire summer with your married lover! To top it all off you allow an entire twenty four hours for this grand reconciliation to happen or you return to the same lover on an already booked flight! I can't blame the man for ignoring your calls! You are my aunt and I am tempted to do the same!"

"You can't mean that Jordie! We are family!"

"I do believe I mentioned that," Jordan sighed.

"So does this mean that you won't put AJ on the phone?"

"I am in bed Aunt Merry and I am not getting out. I just got Riley back to sleep and if you wake him by calling back I will put your number on our caller ID ignore list!" she informed Meredith and hung up as she was protesting, "But Jordie!"

With nothing else to do until the time of her flight back to Spain, and nothing else to loose, Meredith rented a car. She drove over to Jordan's and spent the day sitting out in from of her apartment building waiting for AJ to come out in the hopes that she could talk to him one more time. Unfortunately for her, neither Jordan nor AJ had any reason to go out that day.

Because she was there over a period of several hours Meredith had the chance to notice something causal passers by or even area residents might not have. There were several parcel deliveries to Jordan's building. This might not have been unusual even though it was Sunday if all the boxes were delivered at the same time, or by different services, but instead there was at least three deliveries made by the same tall good looking man at different times throughout the hours she was there.

The man seemed to take quite some time for each delivery, and Meredith could only figure that he was either a bit slow and had a hard time finding the apartment that he was to take the package to, or that he had a girlfriend in the building and was stopping to see her each time. Both thoughts caused a sigh from Meredith because she could have used the distraction of 'chatting up' a good looking man, but she didn't want someone that was slow or taken. She had no way of knowing that one of the parcels that he had delivered would have a very dramatic effect on her niece's family.

With a sigh at the end of her vigil, Meredith pulled away to head for the airport and return to her Professor.

To be continued…