A New Life for Dr. Mitchel Ch. 02

Helen looked at Becca. "Didn't you just buy a car from us?"

"I did," Becca replied. "But I think I should bring it back and get Marsh to renegotiate my deal. I didn't do near as good as he seems to be doing."

Helen smiled at her. "Becca, I think that's what Marsh called you. I'm not going to renegotiate your deal. But, if Marsh is going to make a point to let me have a first shot at all your family's business. I think we're going to sell you your next car, and more to come. Bill, write him a deal." Helen turned to leave the office.

"Helen, wait just a minute." Marsh called to Helen, then he turned to Jimmy. "Do you think we should get a van or a luxury SUV for the hotel?"

"Hmmm," now it was Jimmy's turn to muse. The way our manager has been handling things we might even need one of each. What do you think, manager?" Jimmy was smiling at Trish.

"Oh my gosh!" Trish exclaimed. "You guys are too much. You ask me to breakfast, and then take me on a buying spree at the auto mall. Couldn't you stick with something a little cheaper, like lingerie, or something I understand?"

Helen started to laugh. "What's the matter girl? Is this the first time a guy has ever taken you out to buy cars for you?" Turning to Marsh she asked, "What do you need? My husband and I own the Ford dealership, here in the mall. Were you thinking about a package deal of some kind."

Marsh smiled, but Jimmy answered her. "Why don't I send Marsh and Trish back to hammer out the rest of the deals on Tuesday morning. Suffice it to say we will need both. Marsh, write the lady a check and let's go home."

Helen looked at Bill, "Have you got that contract we need?"

"Yes ma'am," Bill replied. "And I took the liberty to start filling in the numbers you and Dr. Mitchel talked about. It looks like this." Bill handed the paper to Helen.

"Finish writing it up, and bring it over to my office. Marsh, it's been a pleasure doing business with you. Come to my office any time you are here, we can work out a deal." Helen handed the papers back to Bill and walked to her own office.

Marsh looked at the smiling Trish. Looking into her eyes, Marsh saw gratitude and love. "Trish," he said, "why don't you take Becca and head out. Jimmy and I will finish up here and meet you back at the ranch."

Turning to Bill, Marsh asked, "Is her car ready to go?"

"I need to put the temporary license on it," Bill responded. "Then she's free to go."

"Do that first," Marsh told him. "We can finish the paperwork after they're gone."

Becca handed the keys to the sixty four to Jimmy. "I think you're going to need these," she commented. "See you guys later."

"I sure hope so," Jimmy said. "Trish, be careful with my granddaughter, eh? I've gotten quite fond of her, now that I have her." Jimmy was smiling from ear to ear. He walked over to Trish, put his arms around her and gave her a kiss. "I love you too, baby girl. I'm so glad to have you."

Jimmy walked out to the little convertible with Trish and Becca, while Marsh wrote the check. He and Bill walked over to Helen's office, where Bill handed the stack of papers to her. Helen gave a cursory look at the forms and handed Marsh his copies.

"Do you have an idea what time you'll be here on Tuesday?" Helen asked.

"I'd guess close to nine o'clock," was Marsh's reply.

"See you then." Helen smiled. "I look forward a growing relationship, between us Marsh. Thank you for coming in and trusting us with your business."

Marsh smiled, turned and walked out. He and Jimmy went out to the old Chevy, and headed for the ranch.

When they were out of the dealership, Marsh turned to Jimmy. "Jimmy my friend, I need to try and get a little more oriented." Marsh was quite serious. "I need to know who I am to your companies, and what all you want me to be doing. I also need to figure out when I need to go home and finish up a few things in California, and move some things back here. I've been basically living out of a suitcase, and I originally planned on heading home tomorrow."

Marsh continued, "Somehow I don't think that's exactly what you have in mind, but you haven't really gotten into specifics. I do know I don't want to leave Trish or Becca behind and just go home, so where do I stand?"

Jimmy looked briefly at Marsh, then back at the road. "Marsh, I want you to take over everything, the manufacturing plants, the hotel, the security business, everything. Starting tomorrow, everyone at every level of each industry I own will know you are second only to me. There are people in each business that are in charge of day to day operations, but you have absolute authority in everything."

"I can't say it any clearer, Marsh. You are my heir to the throne. There's a lot I need to show you, but I set up my trusts with you as sole trustee, and beneficiary. It seems like it might be a good idea to change some of the benefits around, now that I have a daughter and a granddaughter. I don't believe that's a serious issue, as I think you will take as good or even better care of our girls than I have been."

"Marsh, bottom line, ... What's mine is yours. Do me proud." Jimmy added with an air of confidence in his voice.

Marsh looked at Jimmy in awe. "So much for 'no pressure', eh? I don't know how to respond, Jimmy. In a few short hours I go from a grieving millionaire to a lost in love billionaire. And I have no idea what I did to deserve to be treated like this. Jimmy, I can only hope I can live up to the trust you are putting in me."

"Now to another thing I'd like to do then." Marsh continued. I'd like to have Becca take me and Trish out to California next weekend. You're invited to come along if you are so inclined. I need to get a few items of business taken care of. I also have a OB/GYN friend that I would like to have examine Becca and Trish. I love both of them, and I think you know we're going to get more intimate sooner than later. I'd like to be sure I won't hurt either of them, and the doctor I trust was Becky's doctor and her friend, well, my friend too. I'm going to have her do some labs on me as well. I haven't seen a doctor since Becky and Elise were killed."

"Well now, That's the kind of honesty I saw in you, Marsh." Jimmy looked at Marsh again, briefly. Looking back to the road, Jimmy continued. "I have some things I'll need to change around. I'd love to come out to California with you and the girls, but if I can't change a couple of appointments I think it would be a good idea for you to take them anyway. I like the way you seem to want to take care of those two, right from the start."

"Like I already told you, I want to take you to the office tomorrow, so everyone gets a chance to meet you. I want you to get into the Gulfstream with Becca, and get checked out, so you can fly it with her. You set up a time to meet Helen, and get a couple of new vehicles for the hotel. That was past due, Marsh. I just never thought about it. Trish has done a great job for me there, and I have just taken her for granted. I really needed and certainly appreciate your fresh perspective."

After your Tuesday appointment, I don't have anything for you to do, so you can spend some time in the Gulfstream with Becca, then head for California as soon as Trish can get herself free from the hotel. If I can get my schedule changed, I'll go with you. If I can't, you'll just have to figure out a way to handle them by yourself."

"You know Marsh, maybe I can pull a couple of strings, and we can pull off that surprise for Becca this coming weekend. She still has no idea what we're planning. Come to think of it, she doesn't know what I did to the Gulfstream either."

Jimmy pulled up to the gate, and punched in his code. He drove through when it opened and waited just inside for the gate to close. Trish's new car was parked next to Marsh's truck. Jimmy drove the sixty four into the shop, and backed it into its spot. He and Marsh walked down to the house, and met the girls on Jimmy's big front porch.

"Jimmy?" Marsh asked. "Do you have a swimming pool around this place? I didn't see one up at my house. I suppose I'll have to have someone put one in for myself, won't I?"

"Gotch ya!" Jimmy laughed. "Yes I have one here, but you have one at your house as well. I thought a smart fella like you would have found it. Maybe you're not as sharp as I thought. Or maybe I haven't given you enough time to look around. Why don't you take one of these beauties,...Oh wait, Trish should take her car up to the house. Becca, you should decide who you want to ride with. Seems like there are three rides for you to choose from this afternoon. I'll take my ride, so nobody has to bring me back home."

Marsh looked at the girls, then at Jimmy. "Jimmy," Marsh asked. Why don't you bring some clothes up, so you can stay with us sometimes? It's not like there isn't room for you. On second thought, you may want to think about my invitation. I meant it, of course, but if you want to sleep,...these girls can get loud. I've said as much as I'm going to now."

Trish slapped Marsh's shoulder. "You better shut up young man. I heard you say you wouldn't kiss and tell."

Jimmy laughed. "I may consider that in the future, but there are a couple of things that will have to happen before I can abandon my house. You will all understand in the future."

Jimmy let the conversation die, and Marsh, Trish, and Becca went down the steps walked towards their own vehicle. Jimmy told them he would be up in a little while, and wished them luck finding the swimming pool.

"That's it?" Marsh asked. "You're not going to even give us a hint?"

Jimmy smiled and turned around to go into his own house. Trish and Becca each got in their own cars and Marsh hopped into his truck.

At the house Marsh got out of his truck, and looked around the house. The parking area on this side of the house ended at a retaining wall. There was a steel guard rail along the edge that discouraged trying to drive off the gravel lot.

Trish's new car was parked closest to the door. Becca's car was beside it, and Marsh had backed his truck in beside Becca's car.

As Marsh looked over the steel railing, he noticed what looked like a deck made of aluminum dock planks. He decided to try and find out first how to get to the deck, and second, what was on the other side of it. Marsh started to walk behind the house. There was a back door. Marsh remembered seeing that door in the kitchen. He remembered that there was a door across from it, that went somewhere under the big main staircase.

As Marsh walked past the back kitchen door he noticed a keypad on the back wall of the house. Now at a slow walk he could see a garage door at this side of the back wall. It was painted in a way to blend in with the house. It also fit tighter than most garage doors.

Marsh punched his code into the key pad, and the door retracted about four inches then began to roll up. The opening was twenty two feet wide and ten feet high. Inside Marsh saw a six wheeled John Deere Gator, a small John Deere yard tractor, and a whole lot of tools and yard equipment.

Just inside the door on the right hand side, was another door. Marsh tried the handle, it was locked. Marsh tried his key, and sure enough he could open the door. Behind the door was a staircase, leading down to...?

Marsh noticed three of what looked like garage door openers. He pushed the button on one of them. The concrete block wall opposite the house began to move and Marsh learned that what looked like a solid concrete block wall was in fact a wall with three huge roll up doors, painted to look like the block wall.

Marsh pushed the buttons to open all three doors. He walked across the driveway and into the cavernous garage. Each door was twenty feet wide and twelve feet tall. Each bay extended at least sixty feet into the side of the mountain. There was space to park almost anything in this garage.

At the back, on the right side of the garage Marsh saw a stairwell and figured that the stairway across the road in the garage behind the house, must lead to an underground tunnel that allowed access to this garage without going outside.

Marsh walked back to the house. Entering the garage again he noticed a shelf with three remote garage door openers lying on it. Each had a number on the face of it, corresponding with the door it opened. Marsh took the opener numbered three, and walked around to his truck. He drove his truck around the back of the house and backed into the third bay of the underground garage. He pushed the button on the remote, and the door in front of him closed.

Marsh hooked the remote to his sun visor and climbed out of his truck. Crossing to the house side of the driveway, Marsh decided to go down the stairs he had found. He closed the other two garage doors across the driveway and opened the door to the stairway.

There was a light switch on the wall just inside the door. Marsh flipped the switch and the stairway lit up. Marsh headed down the stairs.

At the bottom of the stairway was a long hallway to the right, marsh figured it went to the garage. There were two doors on the left. One opened on the side wall of the hallway. It had a keypad lock. The other door opened off the end of the hallway, and it had a key lock, it however, was unlocked. Marsh opened that door, and walked into a dimly lit room that appeared to be the size of a gymnasium. Marsh looked for light switches and found a row of four switches on the right side of the door, flipping them all on the gym lit up like a sunny day outside. Marsh noted that the lights were all low energy LEDs.

Marsh turned around and looked from one side of the room to the other. There were two treadmills, two elliptical type walkers, two stationary bikes with foot pedals and hand cranks. On the other side of the gym, there were weight training machines, and free weights with stands, and benches.

There were doors on each side of the gym. Marsh walked to each of the doors. These doors were also unlocked, and behind one there was a large home theater. The door on the opposite side of the gym, opened to reveal a game room, with a ping pong table, a pool table, some card tables, and a big screen TV, with couches and chairs to sit and watch.

There was an indoor hot tub, next to the thirty by forty foot pool. Marsh also saw a pedestal with switches over near the end of the pool.

The switches were labeled. There were five pairs of switches with left and right labels. Curtains, inner doors, outer doors, deck, and stairs.

Marsh couldn't help himself, he had to try them.

Sure enough, the first set of switches opened the curtains to reveal huge glass doors. The second set started the glass panels sliding open from the center, revealing that the pool extended another forty feet out beyond the indoor portion of the pool.

Marsh flipped the third set of switches, and all of the glass panels folded back against the walls.

The next set of switches uncovered the pool by sliding the aluminum decking out on each side of the pool. The last pair of switches extended a set of aluminum stairways that ended up matching the edge of the main floor deck.

The outside portion of the pool was an infinity style that looked out over the valley.

There was one home visible, and Marsh knew it was the Morrison estate. Dan Morrison owned most of the land on the opposite side of the country road that ran between Jimmy's land and Dan's. Marsh really didn't know the Morrisons, but knew enough about them to know he wanted to make their acquaintance. Marsh knew he had a lot more exploring to do here at his new home and around the property. He looked forward to doing that exploring with his dog, and with his new family. For now, it was time to find Trish and Becca, and talk them into going for a swim.

Marsh left the gym and pool room open. There were overhead fans that kept most of the bugs out, and there were a few bug zappers that killed most of the ones that managed to get inside.

Marsh headed back to the tunnel, and ran up the steps to the garage. He closed the garage door, and walked back to the door that he had figured led into the kitchen. It did, and Marsh walked into the kitchen, then around to the main stairway. He heard the ladies talking and laughing upstairs, so he ran up to the master bedroom, and found Trish and Becca sitting on the bed enjoying each other's company, sounding like best friends.

Marsh's mind was reminded of times, quite a few years ago, when he enjoyed hearing Becky and her friend Sue in similar conversations. This was a good thing. Marsh had loved Becky and Sue. Now he loved Becca and Trish. His life seemed to be getting better.

As Marsh walked into the bedroom, the girls hopped off the bed and ran into his arms. "Welcome stranger!" exclaimed Trish. "We were beginning to wonder if you had gotten lost. Where have you been?"

Marsh smiled at the beautiful red heads and replied. "If you remember, Jimmy wished us luck finding our swimming pool. I found that and more. What do you say we get undressed and take a swim? Same rules for the pool as for the spa. No textiles."

Marsh walked toward the closet, taking his shirt off as he went. He tossed the shirt into the hamper then kicked off his shoes. His jeans were next. The Sig went on top of the dresser, and his underwear went into the hamper. Marsh went to the linen closet and took out three towels. He picked up the Sig, and walked back into the bedroom. Trish and Becca were naked and waiting for him. They each took a towel from Marsh, and followed him down the stairs.

He walked across the living room, and as Marsh walked out on the deck he heard the girls gasp. "Wow!" Marsh heard from Becca. "This is beautiful," said Trish.

"And you haven't seen the half of it yet." Marsh told them. He walked over to the aluminum stairway on the left side of the pool. The deck had a gate that Marsh opened and headed down to the deck below. Trish and Becca followed him.

When he got to the bottom of the stairs, Marsh turned right around and headed back into the gym with Trish and Becca right behind him. Marsh showed both ladies how to close up the pool, and the room. He showed them the stairway that led up to the kitchen, and then showed them the door to the tunnel.

"Where does that go?" asked Becca, as she opened the door and stepped into the tunnel.

"Well now," replied Marsh. "The tunnel ahead goes over to the garage. You'll both get a remote, to put in your car. It'll be quicker and easier to walk across the driveway, to the kitchen, most of the time. However, when it's raining, this tunnel will be dry."

"This stairway leads up to a huge utility room with a bunch of stuff already there for yard work and such. You'll need to be naked to use any of it, because I want to watch you working naked." Marsh had his wicked smile on as he said this.

"The door immediately to your right, I don't know for sure. I have some suspicions, but I haven't explored it yet."

"Now if it's all the same to y'all, I'd like to go back and get into the pool. There's a couple of beautiful, naked women here, that I'd like to hang out with in the water."

"Oouuu," Trish cooed. "That sounds like a wonderful, indecent proposal."

"I like the sound of that, too." added Becca.

Marsh walked back into the gym, and over to the pool. He'd never been in this pool, so he decided to walk down the steps and check it out safely, as opposed to diving right in and swimming laps.

The combined indoor and outdoor pool was eighty feet long. Marsh walked towards the middle. The pool deepened, and Marsh soon found himself in deeper water than he could walk in, so he treaded water towards the infinity end of the pool.

When he was at the middle of the pool, Marsh dove to the bottom. It seemed that it was about fifteen feet deep. Marsh resurfaced and continued through the outdoor section of the pool. As he neared the infinity end of the pool the bottom of the pool got nearer to the surface, and Marsh was able to walk to the end, where the water was about three feet deep.