She looked at him the entire time she ate the omelet that he had cooked for her. The man who had become her husband and when they had shot their annulment all to hell, the father of her baby.

Well when it would be born anyway, which would be…oh about seven and a half months from now give or take a week. That meant she had some time to prepare for the reality that she would be a mother but with both the baby's parents lives in danger right now, she didn't know what the future held.

But she already couldn't wait to meet her baby, but how would Matt feel about it? She bit her lip as she looked across at him sipping his coffee and finishing up his own breakfast. They were back in L.A. where Dmitri could be waiting to confront them to enact his revenge against them. She wasn't about to let that happen not when a new life depended on her and Matt but she hedged about whether or not to share her news. After all, the words, "bubble wrap" kept coming into mind when she didn't want them to, because after all, if he got preoccupied with trying to protect her and the baby, he'd put his own life at greater risk.

And losing him to the ire of Dmitri wasn't an option.

Carol had urged her to go get a doctor to examine her to confirm the pregnancy and put her on a health plan, but C.J. knew she couldn't do that right now. Any exposure out in public that wasn't absolutely necessary would put them all in danger. They still needed to hear back from their friends and family who were trying to help them end this nightmare.

"You want some more eggs," he asked.

She shook her head.

"No, this is quite enough and very good."

He smiled and she knew that he couldn't pass up a chance to practice cooking especially in his perfection of his omelets. God, she wished this was just a normal morning with them being a married couple enjoying a tasty breakfast before starting a more or less typical work day. Maybe they'd split up the daily paper while they read it and talk about their plans at the end of the day.

They'd never had that in their marriage but then again it wasn't supposed to be anything but a professional arrangement between them to last enough to conclude the investigation of the island resort. Instead, they had to face off with crime lord, Dmitri after he ambushed them. But then again when they got away from him and then ended up in that hotel in San Francisco, one thing had led to another so they couldn't go to Reno and annul their marriage. Then they had that deal where they stayed married for 30 days. But that had been before their lives had been consumed with staying one step ahead of Dmitri's hired men and now…she found out she'd somehow found time in all this chaos to get pregnant.

She looked at him finishing up his meal and didn't know how she could not tell him but then again, if he knew he'd spend all his time worrying about her and the baby. And he'd become too distracted to keep himself safe. If she lost him, she'd not be able to cope with that.

So maybe she should just wait a little while. She sipped her juice.

"What's on the schedule for today?"

"Uncle Roy and Chris will be coming over here soon," Matt said, "We're going to try to sneak into the online banking accounts traced to Dmitri."

"You mean hack don't you?"

He nodded, conceding that but then again, between the two of them, she was way more proficient with computers. She began to clear the plates.

"Guess we'd better get showered and ready."

He gave her a devilish look and she chuckled at him.

"No thank Cowboy, if I don't take this shower by myself, we'll still be there when the others arrive."

Judging by the look in his eyes, she knew he could think of worse things than that but he let her off the hook for now.

"I'll take a rain check then."

She nodded at him with a smile and then took the dishes in the kitchen to rinse them.

Chris wanted to know all about the pregnancy tests as soon as they left the men alone to tool with the computer. She'd be doing her part of that once Roy and Matt set the system up.

"So what's the verdict?"

C.J. looked at her friend and felt a little guilty spilling to her when she hadn't even told Matt yet.

"Well, are we going to have to build a nursery at the office?"

C.J. just looked pointedly at Chris as they stood inside the kitchen while C.J. poured them some iced tea.

"According to the tests, I'm pregnant."

Chris widened her eyes and just put a hand over her mouth.

"You…and Matt oh my god..."

C.J. raised a brow.

"Is it really all that surprising?"

"Well…yeah, I mean you two were always close friends but platonic friends and it's a little hard to get pregnant that way."

"I know that," C.J. said, "but our resolve to keep our marriage in name only kind of faded when we were alone in the hotel suite."

Chris grinned.

"How was he anyway?"

C.J. put one hand on a hip.

"I'm not going to tell you," she said, "I don't kiss and tell though we did do a lot of kissing."

Chris chuckled.

"And a lot of something else," she said, "I just always wondered if you two would ever get it on and I guess that question's been answered."

C.J. couldn't argue with that so she didn't bother but she didn't want anyone else to know so she told Chris not to reveal her news to anyone.

"Okay I promise," Chris said, "but you can't keep Matt in the dark about it. He's going to want to know."

"I know but if he knows now, all he'll be thinking about is how to protect me and the baby even if it means wrapping us in bubble wrap or duct tape."

Chris wrinkled her nose.

"I don't know…seems a bit kinky for him," she said, "Sure he'll be concerned but he's always like that."

True perhaps but her being pregnant would up the ante and she couldn't afford him being off of his game even slightly because he was worried about her.

"Look I'll tell him when it's safer and eventually he'll forgive me."

She hadn't heard the footsteps behind her but she did hear the voice.

"Forgive you about what C.J.?"

She turned her head and saw Matt standing there looking his usually sexy self though perplexed as well. She ran a hand through her hair.

"Oh nothing…except for what happened with our marriage."

He wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and kissed her neck. God, she loved that, first the tickle of his mustache and then the caressing of her soft skin with his mouth. He could have her horizontal fast if he kept doing that but she had to stick to the business at hand.

"Nothing to be sorry about," he said, "though I think the 30 days deal is a bit ridiculous since it's passed."

"Oh it has…I didn't notice."

He kissed her again.

"Been pretty busy doing all kinds of things," he said.

She smiled and her skin tingled from the attention he gave to it and a part of her wanted to shoo Roy and Chris out the door so that they could spend the afternoon alone together.

Maybe then she'd tell him about the pregnancy.

"Roy's got it all set up," Matt said, "We'd better get started."

She nodded, all business now and they all went to the living room to start hacking into the banking systems where Dmitri supposedly kept his accounts.

"Roy had a contact from the old days that gave him some account numbers to look up," Matt said, "Turned out that this Dmitri guy's been active for years and before him, is father."

Roy nodded.

"Yes his daddy was a covert operative working for the company like I did only he turned traitor for the money."

Matt scratched the back of his neck, watching C.J. at work, her fingers flowing over the keyboard as she entered the data. Truly an expert in this area, he marveled at how quickly she brought up information on the screen.

"Passwords?"

Matt looked over at Roy but neither of them knew them. C.J. turned to face the both of them.

"Got to find them out before we go any further," she said, "which means we might need to get more info on his background."

Matt knew that might be necessary given that most people picked passwords from aspects of their life history. He imagined that Dmitri would do the same and that if they knew enough about him, they'd find the answers.

Roy leaned back in the couch looking at the both of them.

"So how's married life treating you?"

Matt looked over at C.J. who said nothing but smiled.

"It's been great," he said, "It'll be even better when Dmitri's been put away and we're free to go back to our lives."

C.J. couldn't argue with that but between now and that day was plenty of danger because they'd have to face off with the man who tried to kill them. But now that she'd gotten pregnant, she didn't know if she could keep her baby safe.

Not to mention the man she'd married who would love nothing more than to go after Dmitri hard and decisively and worry about the danger later. Right now all she wanted to do was grab hold of him and pull him close to her, to feel his warmth around her and to bury herself in his scent. But that day was not here yet and a powerful man stood between them who could stop it from ever happening.

She'd be damned if he'd succeed in doing that because although she'd just found out she carried a child, she felt a wave of protectiveness towards it, that soothed her like a warm blanket yet charged her up as well. She'd do anything to keep her baby safe and if Dmitri came after them, she'd fight back somehow.

Matt might not like that but that's how she felt and neither one of them could defeat Dmitri alone, they had to do it together.