One night, Mateo stumbles upon a distraught Hayley Vaughan on the beach still in her wedding gown.

Tanner's tricks to this end even include hiring someone to pretend to be Hayley's deceased stepfather.

Tanner gets Hayley to fly with him in a private plane to Texas under the pretense of "visiting" Mateo.

Their wedded bliss is cut short when Raquel Dion, Mateo's first wife, shows up and she is not alone.

Eventually, Mateo saves Hayley's life yet again, pulling her from a burning warehouse.

Mateo is hot on her trail to the Caribbean and drags her back to Pine Valley just in time to prevent Hayley from confessing in court that she had strangled Arlene to death.

Finally, Mateo and Hayley's dream to become parents comes true when a psychic that appears on her talk show tells her she is pregnant.