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The drive back to the office was close to mortifying for C.J. She got she didn't know how many whistles and shout outs as she drove in her bikini. At least she wasn't in the convertible, she told herself. She parked in the garage and had to build up her courage for a minute before walking across the lot and getting inside.

She turned up the radio. This is Laci and Blaze signing off the female voice said.

The male voice added, Don't forget we will be extending the contest until the end of next week so that means you can win one of our amazing holiday for a day packages.

The female voice cut in, Just the thing for me with our wedding approaching! So take care L.A. See you tomorrow!

C.J. turned off the radio and quickly walked across the parking garage and in past the security guard at his desk, speechless. She got in the elevator after waving to him with a forced smile as if nothing were wrong and felt a strong sense of relief as the elevator dinged in the penthouse.

Luckily Chris was not at her desk and she thought she might actually be able to slip in, get downstairs to some clothes and change with no one actually seeing her. She got downstairs where her husband had just been working out. In fact he was sitting down unwrapping his wrists, about to turn the shower on when he saw her come down.

The smile that took over his face when he saw her descend the stairs in his favorite little black bikini almost made him chuckle when he caught a view of himself in the mirror. He was virtually licking his lips as he got up to meet her at the last step.

"Now this is a surprise, albeit a very, very nice one..." was all he said as reached her and put his hands around her waist, drawing her to him as his mouth captured hers. He pulled back to run his hand through her hair as he continued, "what made you decide to do this, surprise me in the office in only a bikini...not that I'm complaining." He didn't wait for her answer before kissing her again. She was more than willing to kiss him back though as she just didn't want to get into why she was only wearing it and what had happened. She still felt unnerved and shaken up, she had come so close to being electrocuted herself. Besides, he didn't really seem all that interested in hearing explanations right now as their arms wrapped around one another.

So she went with it and him to the shower. He took her by the hand and turned the water on before turning back around and taking her in his arms again. She began pulling at his shirt to pull it over his rather sweaty head and he began fiddling with her bikini straps quickly dropping her top to the floor. She pulled back only long enough to say in her sexiest voice, "You take off your shorts and I'll take off mine."

It took Matt all of 2 seconds to get his down and he stumbled back into the shower as he watched her take off her bikini bottoms like a strip tease. She lightly pushed him back under the water as she stood before him without a stitch of clothing with him barely able to contain himself. After running the water over him for a second he pulled her to him. She slid soap all over his body and he returned the favor while pushing her hair up and kissing her neck...at first...and then maneuvering his way down the front of her body.

She gasped for air the lower he got, of course stalling when he got to his favorite parts. Before she knew it, he had picked her up, with her straddling him and leaned her against the wall as he made love to her. His strength was more than sufficient to hold her and move her around as she almost shouted out when he had expertly found that oh so sensitive spot again that had her gasping for air. After 20 minutes of sheer pleasure she reached that climax and he followed as he held on to her, kissing her on the mouth as expertly as he always did. He gently let her down to a standing position as he brushed her hair back and told her for the 20th time in the last 30 minutes "I love you, C.J., I love you so much."

She responded kissing him and saying, "I love you Matt, so very very much." They washed off again before he reached out of the shower and grabbed both of them a towel, helping her dry off first as he usually does when they shower together. This of course led to more kissing and a temptation to turn the water back on, but Matt pulled back.

He told her, "I would love to spend the entire day in here, but we have a new client, actually two new clients coming in and this might not make the best first impression." She chuckled and agreed, although reluctantly.

The two went to the closet and picked out something to wear and once he was finished, he leaned over and kissed her before helping her button up the last buttons on her blouse. She told him, "Well after we meet with the client, we do need to talk about my spa experience today."

His eyes lit up, again clearly thinking his plan was running along perfectly. "Oh and what is it we need to discuss? Was your experience there today better than the other places you've been?"

She looked down, "Not exactly. It was definitely different than any of the others I will say that." She looked back up at him putting on his watch and said, "It can wait. So who are these clients of ours and what's the problem they have?"

Matt answered, "Well, they are two radio DJs who are about to get married and someone is trying to sabotage their wedding. They keep getting threatening phone calls, someone has cancelled their cake order once and their flower order twice, and they are concerned that whoever it is may become violent. This could become dangerous or it may just be that someone is trying to get on the radio and is using them to do it. Or it could be an ex boyfriend or girlfriend. You are gonna sit in on this with me and Uncle Roy, right?"

C.J. nodded her head and said, "Of course I will. Lets go." After picking up their scattered clothes and putting them in the hamper, he took her hand and led her to the stairs before stepping back and letting her ascend them. Once they got up to the penthouse, Chris was back and Uncle Roy was bringing up Baby.

Matt rubbed her back for a second before they split up as she walked over to the couch and he left to go to the bar to get them all something to drink. "Juice?" he asked them.

Roy looked over at him and said, "Yes, orange juice." He then moved so C.J. could have her usual spot in front of Baby as all three considered her the master at the computer. She kept telling them it was because Baby just liked her best.

As she sat down she said, "Orange juice would be nice, thanks." She started clicking away at Baby and getting it ready for the names of their clients as Matt made his way over to them will all three glasses. "So what names do I need to plug in?"

Matt took a sip and said, "Let's start with the clients, Laura Cynthia Summers a.k.a. Laci Summers and Jonathan 'Blaze' Jackson."

C.J. plugged both names in and pulled up images of the two. She told Roy and Matt as she read from the printout Baby started, "Well, Baby has the two growing up in California...they attended different public schools and colleges but both went into broadcasting. Until about 6 months ago they worked at different stations, but the station they are at now had to drop their morning crew suddenly and they were both offered a position. After what appears to be a whirlwind romance, they got engaged just 2 weeks ago, on air."

Matt leaned over to look at the printout and added, "That's when they started getting the phone calls. The female, Laci, told Chris that the first one got on air when someone called in to win some kind of prize they were giving away and after that, they started to screen more carefully." Matt put his juice down and looked at C.J., "Can Baby pull up the audio of the threat?"

C.J. leaned back over to Baby to click buttons and said, "Well, we can try." It took several minutes of clicking as Matt watched his wife masterfully work her magic on the supercomputer. He couldn't help himself from reaching out and pulling her hair back for her away from her face so she could see better. That's when he noticed her necklace missing. The necklace she had worn since he gave it to her 10 years ago.

He asked her, "Honey, what happened to your necklace?"

She stopped clicking buttons and slowly sat back up as her husband kept lightly brushing her neck with the tips of his fingers. "Well, its in good hands." She took a deep breath. Matt looked her over and raised a brow. She knew he needed more of an explanation, but she wasn't sure now was the time with the clients on the way. "I haven't lost it and I will get it back, but Matt, its a long story and one that should probably wait until after we meet with our client."

Matt looked confused so he asked, "Ok, but what do you mean its in good hands, who has it?"

Hoyt had just gotten off the elevator and opened the doors to the penthouse catching the conversation so he answered, "I have it, but I'm returning it now." He pulled it out of his pocket and Matt, C.J., and Roy all stood up and walked over to him.

C.J. took the necklace from Hoyt and said, "Thank you. When do I get the rest of my things back?"

Hoyt nodded and answered, "Soon."

Matt and Roy looked at each other and Roy asked, "Might I inquire as to why you have things that belong to my niece?" Roy had not really used the term too much before, but he had told C.J. privately before walking her down the aisle that he had grown to view her as the daughter he never had, but that after the wedding she would officially be his niece, and he was delighted as he could be to have her now officially in the family where she should have been for years now. He told her he was walking her down the aisle as a daughter but gaining a niece when she walked back down it with Matt. Those words had touched her heart and continued to do so each time he called her his niece.

Hoyt looked at C.J., clearly irritated and said, "Let me guess, you haven't told them about what happened at the spa have you?"

Matt asked, "What does he mean?" He asked this as he was clasping her necklace back around her neck as she held up her hair. He then walked around to face her and said, "There was something you wanted to tell me earlier wasn't there. What's going on C.J.?"

C.J. took a deep breath and Hoyt offered, "Do you want me to tell them?"

She shook her head, "No, I can tell them, there's nothing for them to be concerned about really..." Matt and Roy both essentially got in front of her so they could watch her eyes when she told them, "I was just going to use the hot tub at the spa before my massage when I noticed a young woman in the tub and she looked like she was asleep so I tried to wake her up." The two men looked at each other and took deep breaths themselves as she continued but swallowing hard first, "She wasn't asleep though, the water was electrically charged and she had died."

At that point Matt took her arms in his hands and looked her in the eye and asked, "Did you touch the water?"

She shook her head and said, "No, Matt, I'm fine." She held up her left hand with her wedding rings and told him, "My rings here gave off a spark and I knew not to touch the water and I knew she was dead. I tested the water with a wooden pole just to be sure before shutting off the electricity to the room from the box on the wall and having the management call Hoyt."

Matt looked at Hoyt while Roy came up behind C.J. and put his arm around her shoulder for a second. Matt asked, "Is there any indication that C.J. was the target? She scheduled her appointment two weeks ago..."

Hoyt shook his head, "No, there isn't. In fact, Mack put the time of death about an hour before C.J. found her. The victim, 24 year old Sandra Mays had scheduled her massage for an hour after her time in the hot tub. An employee was about to come get her and would have been the one to find her if C.J. hadn't shown up when she did." He then looked back at C.J. and said, "You should be able to pick up the rest of your things later this afternoon in the evidence locker. We're citing it as evidence irrelevant to the case."

C.J. nodded and said, "Well, I wouldn't think my clothes would be relevant to the case, no."

Matt and Roy both looked at her then with a very puzzled look on their face. She could see, however, the realization dawn on Matt though and he spoke up, "So, you drove back over here, in your bikini?" He looked her up and down, almost smiling.

She smiled a little sarcastic smile and answered, "Why yes I did and I must say it was very close to mortifying."

Matt asked, "Why didn't you call me? I would have brought you some clothes to change into. I'd rather not have my wife running around town dressed in something I want to be the only one privileged enough to see her in." He wasn't angry and actually thought to himself that a year ago he probably would have made a couple of wisecracks about the experience since it didn't really seem to phase her too much.

C.J. rolled her eyes and then said with a smile, "Well, you didn't seem to mind my being in the bikini when I got here."

Matt started to blush and he thanked Hoyt before putting his arm around his wife and walked back with her to the couch. Roy showed Hoyt out so he didn't hear Matt tell her, "I didn't really hear you complaining about my response either." They both chuckled before he kissed her, slow and intense and then told her, "I love you."

She told him, "I love you." She looked down for a second while Matt still had his arms around her waist and then looked back into his eyes when she said, "I want to work with Hoyt on that case. She was so young and..." her voice started to break so she stopped to regain her composure.

Matt rubbed her back and said, "Of course we can look into it. Come on, lets get some background run here and meet with the client. I'll call in some favors and get what I can from the police for us to go over." He tilted her chin up and asked, "You sure you're ok?". He knew she had to have thought about the fact that she could have been the victim and was probably not saying anything because she didn't want to alarm him. He was right too as that was exactly what she was doing.

She nodded and said, "Yes, let's get back to work." They both then sat down as Roy joined them. One of his hands stayed around her either rubbing her back or just around her waist because whether she said it or not, this near miss still bothered him.