He opened the envelope and out came a photo of him and C.J. walking on the side walk in front of their office building with a red heart drawn around C.J.'s figure in the picture and a big red "X" drawn right thru it. He didn't like the looks of this at all and then he read the letter.
Mr. Houston,
You killed my brother when he jumped out of that hospital window, now I will kill her and hand you her HEART!!! Before I KILL YOU!!!. You won't know where, you won't know when, and you won't know how, but you both are going to DIE!!
After all the Heart of a good woman lies within a man.
Cassandra
After reading this letter written obviously by another family lunatic Matt really started to freak out when C.J. was nowhere to be found. "C.J.!!!!" "Are you here!!!!??" He searched all over the offices and hers as well. No sign of her. Flashbacks of the day Castanos took her hostage flashed in his head. "Oh god please not again," he muttered to himself.
Just as he was about to pick up the phone and call Hoyt, in a total state of panic, the elevator doors opened.
"Hey, back already" C.J. asked not knowing what a heart attack she had just about given him.
"Where have you been? Why weren't you here when I got back?" he asked frustrated and concerned all at the same time.
"I went around the corner to the little deli to grab a sandwich, why what is wrong?" she asked now she was getting concerned because he never acted like that unless something had freaked him out.
" Nothings wrong now that your standing here in front of me." "Just please don't go anywhere or do anything unless you tell me first." walking over and hugging her in relief.
" Ummm, ok, care to tell me why?" Oh before I forget, there was an envelope that came for you while you were gone, I left it on the bar for you, did you see it?" she asked knowing full well something was up and it probably had to do with what was in the letter.
"Yea, I got it alright." he said
"Well was it anything to do with this case?" she asked figuring it did with that response he had just given to her about getting it in the first place
"Did you find anything out about the Castanos family while I was out?" he asked trying not to answer the question about what was in the envelope or why he wanted to know where she was or what she would be doing from now on.
"I did actually….. there is a sister named Cassandra who has been living in South America for the last several years, but no one really seems to know why, possibly drug trafficking is all I really could come up with.
Just then the phone rang it was Hoyt, wanting to let Matt know that the heart that exploded out of the cake was indeed a woman's human heart and now they were trying to work on the identity of the woman it had belonged to. Matt told Hoyt he needed to talk to him but asked him to come to the office, Hoyt agreed and said he was on his way.
Hoyt came into the office all fired up wanting to know why he had to come there.
"Shshhh" "C.J. is in her office." Matt said, not wanting her to hear what he had to say.
Matt showed Hoyt the picture and letter. "Geez, she's just as crazy as he was." he said in frustration.
"So C.J. doesn't know what was in the envelope I take it?" he asked.
"No, I have been able to avoid telling her so far" Matt said
I've got to figure out a way to get her out of here with out freaking her out anymore than I already have. I kind of flipped out on her earlier when I got back because she wasn't here, and all she had done was go around the corner to the deli but by then I had seen the letter and kind of let her have it for not being here. Matt said sheepishly.