| A few months later in early 1996, Carly discovered that she was pregnant with Mike’s baby. Rosanna and Scott broke up, Mike dumped Carly, and Mike and Rosanna quickly reconciled and started dating again. However, Mike made a commitment to be involved in his child’s life, but Rosanna was livid that this meant that he would still have Carly in his life. One night when they were all at the Falcon Club, Rosanna and a very pregnant Carly fought on the deck of the Valletta, which ended with Carly falling overboard, leading to the baby being born prematurely, and dying. This was the final straw for Mike, telling Rosanna that their love was dead. Rosanna and Carly both left town soon thereafter.
Close friends with Lily, Mike helped investigate the Umberto/Diego connection in an effort to help bring Damian’s “killer” to justice. During the process, he met Pilar Domingo (Diego’s sister) and fell for her. When she returned to Spain after Diego was dead and buried, Mike followed her.
In July 2002, while in a seedy NYC bar, Mike came to Molly McKinnon’s rescue, and they hit it off. They discovered they had Oakdale in common, and once Molly found out his full name, she quickly left, not wanting to deal with their mutual connection to Carly. He followed her back to Oakdale and wore her down until she was open to the possibility of them becoming a couple. However Rosanna interfered, sending him to Venezuela on a construction gig. Molly and Carly figured it out and informed Mike and he quickly returned. With the possibility of Mike leaving town for work again, Molly made an anonymous donation to fund the Hospital’s burn unit and arranged for Mike to the contractor on the job. With Henry’s help, Rosanna exposed Molly, and Mike broke it off with her. The night before Carly’s wedding, Mike found Carly heartbroken, as Jack had just called off the wedding, and they repeated their mistake from years ago and shared a night of passion. The next day, Jack changed his mind and Mike gave Molly another chance, but Rosanna was on to them and vowed to expose the Mike and Carly. Henry got the security guard at Monte Carlo to ID Mike as the man Carly slept with, but instead of going to Rosanna, Henry went to Carly and blackmailed her for $50,000. Mike took out a loan from Lucinda and gave Carly $50,000 to cover what she embezzled from Monte Carlo. Eventually, Craig lied and told Rosanna that he was the one who slept with Carly the night before her wedding. Carly became pregnant and told Mike the baby was Jack’s.
Carly did her best to keep her affair with Mike a secret, but eventually Jack found out. Feeling betrayed by his wife and his friends (for not telling him) and believing that Carly was pregnant with Mike’s child, Jack and Molly fell into a sudden passion filled tryst -- though they did not make love. Mike arrived and mistook them for lovers. |
