6
It took Matt a little longer than he anticipated to get back. After paying the fine and getting a ride from his lawyer, he made sure Bo and Lamar had their instructions from the judge and would abide by each one.
Bo then asked, "What about Floyd's place? What do we do now?"
Matt then told him, "Just keep an eye on it. I want to know who goes in and out of it and how long those agents stick around. C.J. has a friend in the Marshal's office and I'll get a hold of him when I get back and do some research on Baby about Floyd to see what I can find there. Then I'll look into who this gun was registered to and see if I can't get into that lunch box." They nodded to each other and he and the lawyer headed to the airport to board Matt's Lear Jet and head back to L.A.
Roy was waiting when they got there. Matt shook the lawyer's hand again after he told him his car was there and didn't need any ride. Roy told him, "I thought you said noon, its almost 4."
Matt nodded as he got in to fly the chopper back and told him, "Yeah well, it took longer to get all the paperwork filled out since I didn't exactly know what I was supposed to sign and where and then there was the $1000 I had to withdraw and hand over to old man Fimple before I could go anywhere. What's this I hear about us taking on a new case." The chopper lifted off the ground.
Roy told him through the headphones, "Macy Raven, she was well known singer..."
Matt interrupted, "Was? What happened?"
Roy explained, "She fell down a flight of stairs, hit her head and broke her neck."
Matt then said, "Let me guess, everyone is now squabbling over the money, right?"
Roy nodded and said, "It gets worse though. There's a little girl involved, Macy's three year old daughter Dove. Its not entirely clear who the father is."
Matt looked at Roy for a second and then said shaking his head, "How can a man not know he has a child...oh and I suppose they all want to claim to be Daddy now right?"
Roy nodded and Matt closed his eyes for a second disgusted. Roy then told him, "The case has hit C.J. pretty hard I think."
Matt then asked clearly concerned, "What do you mean?"
Roy then said as they neared the penthouse, "Well, its made her think more about growing up in Texas with Floyd and Missy. She remembers well how they didn't really treat her like kin. She's worried I think that Dove, Macy's daughter will grow up in the same type of household."
Matt nodded his head as they got ready to land and said, "Yeah, I've been thinking about it more lately myself. Bo and Lamar are worried about someone on Floyd's property. Someone got a message to them about selling it and when they didn't respond right away, someone set fire to C.J.'s old room." They landed but he continued, "I found a couple of things and plan to do a little research on it but I want to wait until I know more before I approach C.J. about it." Roy nodded and the two got out and headed inside.
They found C.J. asleep on the couch with the bottle of aspirin beside her and Matt furrowed his brow, stopped and then looked back at his uncle. "Does she have another headache?"
Roy nodded and grabbed Matt's shoulder as he had started to walk over to her to stop him. "Yes, she seems to have gotten it yesterday, suddenly, as we were talking through the case. Then this morning when we were talking to Hoyt about Macy's autopsy report it came on again. I drove her back here around 11 and she's been asleep ever since."
Matt looked at him even more concerned now and said, "You mean she's been asleep since 11 and hasn't woken up at all?"
Roy then shrugged and told him, "I don't think so. Chris called me a couple of times and told me she hadn't stirred really."
Matt blinked and then walked over to her when Roy told him to just take care of her and that he'd see them bright and early in the morning to continue working on the case. He bent down and brushed the hair back from her forehead and cheek.
At that point she stirred. As her eyes fluttered open she could see her husband looking at her with a little smile, but looking just a little worried. "Hey there sleeping beauty."
She started to try to sit up but put her hand on her forehead again saying, "Oh..."
He put his hand softly on her shoulder, lightly pushing her back to a laying position and said, "Hey now why don't you just lay back for a minute. I heard you have a killer headache."
His hands continued to run through her hair as she told him, "Yes I do. I don't know why but it just came on yesterday. Its a lot like those migraines I used to have. You remember?"
He took a deep breath and told her, still speaking very softly, "I do...I remember driving you home from school early because you got one so bad you passed out in health class. I told the teacher you'd be just fine missing that one class because all we were covering that day was the brain and since you were so smart, you must know all about it."
They chuckled for a second and she told him, "I haven't had one in so long. They just leave me so tired."
Matt nodded brushing his thumb over her cheek. He leaned up to kiss her lightly and then said, "I remember that too. You have anything to eat today?"
She shook her head, "No, I got sick in Hoyt's office and lost what I ate for breakfast. I could go for some lunch though. Care to take your wife out for lunch?"
She smiled and he smiled back before saying, "Well, its closer to dinner time now. Here let me...".
He started to get up to help her up but she looked at her watch first confused. She looked almost in disbelief and said, "Its 4:30? I slept all day?"
Matt sat on the edge of the couch by her hip and told her, "Yes you did. Honey, its like you said, they leave you tired. Let me run my bag down to the car and then I'll come back up and help you out. We'll get some take out and eat at home, alright?"
C.J. nodded still confused a little and Matt kissed her lightly again. He told her, "You just lay back for a couple of minutes and I'll take care of this and we'll leave together, hum."
C.J. did just that, trying to get her bearings as Matt ran down and then came up and got her. He held her hand, rubbing it in that way of his as he drove them. They didn't say much and he let her just sit back and relax as he drove. They got some fish and chips at the place by the boardwalk and then got to the house.
They ate out on the patio and she filled him in on the case before asking him how his trip went. He told her about the cattle somehow ending up on the wrong side of the river. Seems as though the recent drought had lowered the level of the river and they had wandered across. The trick was getting them back across when they weren't interested. He of course, added a few anecdotes to make her laugh, which she did.
She asked at that point, "So Bo and Lamar couldn't handle it with the hands they have?"
Matt knew she would figure out that it wasn't that big a deal, certainly not something that required Matt to solve so he continued, "Well, it wasn't just the cattle. There are some issues with Floyd's old property, nothing serious. I needed to have the official deed for the place though and we couldn't find it in any of Daddy's things. His safe has some papers but nothing on that property."
C.J. inhaled and rubbed her forehead again. She told him, "Why do you need the deed? Is someone wanting to buy that old place?"
Matt didn't really want to tell her everything and had noticed she didn't seem to be feeling that well still so he told her, "There has definitely been some interest in the place." Then he got up, reached out his hand to her which she took and then said, "Come on, lets get back in, get you some more aspirin and I'll draw you a nice bath in that spare room, hum?"
She got up and smiled before telling him, "Only if you'll join me in that bath."
Matt smiled but wanted to make sure she was really ok so he took her back in. They parted ways at the stairs while she went to the bedroom to undress and he went downstairs to the kitchen to get her aspirin and a glass of water. When he got upstairs to draw her bath he saw all the candles and decided on the spur of the moment to light them. He took her bath salts and poured them in the tub as the water ran and took some matches from under the sink and lit them all. As he was putting the match out in the sink he turned around to see his wife in her black silk robe.
He smiled and told her, "Here now, you just take these..." he handed her the aspirin and the glass of water. As she was swallowing he continued, "climb in this nice bath and just relax."
She sat the glass down and untied her robe letting it fall to the floor. Matt caught his breath as she stood before him with nothing on. She whispered to him, "Like I said, only if you'll join me." She took one step and he met her taking one step himself.
Before kissing her and letting him do what his body was screaming for him to do he asked her, "Are you sure you feel up to this?"
She smiled and put her hands on his face saying, "I think its just what I need. I missed you so much these last few days. I love you..." She closed her eyes as his lips met hers and his hands wrapped around her waist and then went up her back.
After that one incredibly intense kiss his hands went back to her face where he stroked it lightly, brushing the hair out of her face. Then he went to kissing her forehead, her cheek and moving toward her ear. His hands moved down as well to her breasts and moved over them as they started to sway. He whispered in her ear, "I missed you so much...I love you so much, C.J."
He fondled her nipples telling her to relax. She was relaxing, trying hard to get his shirt off as she was running her hands up and down his chest. His touch was intoxicating and she started to lean more heavily on him as he whispered to her. All she could really say back was "Ah ha...yes...Matt...I..."
His hands moved back to her waist as he kissed her forehead again tilting it back up with his lips. After giving her a second to balance herself he released her to take his shirt off and unbutton his pants, dropping them to the floor with his underwear and stepping out of them and his shoes at the same time.
Then his arms went back around her as he powerfully pulled her to him, brushing his lips over her and kissing her in earnest. With one hand around her waist the other went lower and she started moving again, still not able to speak.
All Matt wanted to do was show her his love for her. He lifted her up in his arms as he carried to that spare bed. He laid her softly back on the bed and sat beside her, facing her telling her to close her eyes. His hands brushed over her cheeks and then went back to her breasts as she moaned again. After a minute or two he lowered his head to roll her nipples over and over in his mouth, one at a time.
Her eyes kept rolling in the back of her head as he did that, knowing exactly where to touch her he was bringing her to the brink without even going further down her body. After another minute his hands went lower and moved her over there. He laid beside her now and put his other hand around her shoulder and one leg moving over hers to pull that one leg toward his body, opening up the rest of her body to his touch. Her back arched after another minute as she grabbed the comforter under her, and began gasping as her body reached that edge. He told her as he whispered in her ear, "Just surrender to it. I've got you." In that moment she did and shuttered in his arms, her body almost involuntarily quivering up in his arms and against his body as he continued to whisper to her, his lips on her ear and his hand, the one around her shoulder, pulling her ever nearer to him, molding her into his body.
As she started coming back down he rolled over her and slowly entered her body. She wrapped her arms around his waist, he continued to whisper to her. "I love you...oh C.J...oh my..."
He was moving slowly and gently while she whispered back to him as best she could, "I love you so much...oh Matt...oh yes...Ah ha..." Her hands ran from his back behind him as she was pulling him into her. His hands were on either side of her face. Kissing her lips, her cheek, her forehead and her ear as he made love to her, their eyes locking and his hands on either side of her face. It was one of the most intense moments for both of them. Both thinking of nothing but their love for the other. As it hit Matt that she was having another climax, he felt his surge beyond his control. They both shook in each others arms staring into each other's eyes.
They kissed for another 10 minutes before he got up, sat beside her, brushing the hair off her face again before whispering, "Lets go get that bath." He helped her up and the two went, cleaned up a little and then settled into the large whirlpool bath tub surrounded by candles.
She leaned on his chest as he ran his hands up and down her arms. She told him, "That was incredible Matt."
He smiled and asked her, "You feeling better now?"
She chuckled which caused him to chuckle then said, "I can definitely say I'm feeling much better now...and very relaxed."
He kissed her forehead again and said, "Good...I'm worried about you a little bit. I don't like you having all these intense headaches."
She told him, "Well it was just the one. I haven't had them in so long. I don't know what brought it on."
Matt thought about it and saw her trying to think about it. His hands were cupping some of the water and running it over her shoulders. He didn't want her thinking really right now, only relaxing so he told her, "Let's not worry about it right now, just lay back here and rest. We'll get out in a minute and then I'll hold you in bed."
She turned around and looked at him, "I have a whole stack of papers to go through first though."
Matt furrowed his brow and then asked her, "Have you been bringing work home with you every night?"
C.J. nodded her head, "I have to Matt. There are about 30 pages that need my signature for each merger, then there are the depositions and acquisitions and..."
He cut her off by putting his finger over her lips. "No wonder you're having headaches. Honey, as of right now, you are off work. You are doing nothing but laying back here, relaxing in my arms and drifting off to sleep when I get you in bed. Understand?" She smiled and did just that.