Wednesday, October 21, 2026

The Mystery Of File XL5

THE BRIDGE BUILDING-
 
OUR CONFERENCE ROOM- A FEW MINUTES LATER

Attorney Thomas White entered our conference room...

"Ms. Yvette...I need your help...Brenda Jordan, an Attorney who was working with us has been arrested.

Charged with the Murder of Mr. Enright...She's no killer..." he said.



"We know. Brenda just called me...We are getting ready to go down to Central Booking, you're welcome to come with us... Alexa you want in on this?" asked Yvette.


"I sure do...I'll call Anita...She can shadow me on this if it's alright.." said Alexa.


"Of course it is.." said Ms. Yvette.

"I got us an 8:00 pm arraignment date in Night Court for tomorrow..."said Sofia.

"Excellent." said Yvette.


"Can you give us a list of charactor witnesses...People who can vouch for Ms. Brenda's good charactor?

We have ten people already." I said.

''Sure..."said Thomas White..


"Here's a pen and a piece of paper...write names addresses and email addresses and phone numbers."said Bee Bee.


"I have more than enough time to run these people down and vet them." said Jade...


"I can help you..." said Kahlil.

"Good Morning....I'm here...What's the caper?" laughed Anita.

Virginia smiled.

THE "FISHBOWL" - The nickname the detectives have for their interrogation room.
40 MINUTES LATER

Lt. Tragg stared at Brenda.

"Brenda that gun cleared Ballistics...It's the murder weapon...The gun that killed Enright and that sap has  Thomas White's blood on it...That's the sap you brained him with when he walked in on you killing Enright." said Lt. Tragg.

"I don't own a gun...I never saw that gun before in my life....I don't know how it got in my car.. And I've never heard of a sap until today...I don't know how that got into my car..No I suppose you got an anonymous tip that that stuff was in my car....That's a neat frame...Did it ever occur to you that whoever called you is probably the person that put that stuff in my car? No of course not." said Brenda.


"So you're saying you didn't kill Enright and you didn't assault White!" said Lt. Tragg.


"That's exactly what I'm saying and that's all I'm going to say...Oh look, My attorneys are here!" said Brenda, smiling.

''We've really got to stop meeting like this Lieutenant!" joked Yvette.
"Crimminy...You really brought a crowd with you today Vettie." snarled Lt. Tragg, looking at Alexa and Anita Brown...




"Well, you know what they say, The More the merrier." I said.
"Alexa and Anita are kind of like assisting us for awhile." said Bee Bee.
"They are going to be a great help." said Sofia.
"But you're right...It is crowded in here...Can we Have the room?" asked Kahlil.

"Yeah can we have the room?" asked Jade.

Lt. Tragg looked at Thomas White-

"You're off the hook kid...We found the murderer and the one who brained you with the sap."said Lt. Tragg.


"She didn't do that...You've got the wrong person." said Thomas White.


"Sure!" he smirked as he left the room.


"You can't stay out of trouble can you girl?" laughed Yvette.

"Vettie get me out of here and I'll explain everything." said Brenda.

"I'm sure you will...Just sit tight...We'll get you out of here soon." said Yvette.


II-

COURTROOM B- TUESDAY NIGHT, 8:05 PM

NIGHT COURT-


Our Client, Brenda Jordan  was in court with us tonight..one day after he was arrested.Charged with Murdering Attorney Lionel Enright and assaulting Attorney Thomas White.

In Philadelphia, Night Court only operates two nights a week....Tuesday and Thursday, Tonight was Tuesday...and fortunately...We got an arraignment date of 8:00 pm. 

The Judge in this case would not be the Judge in the actual case....

Lt. Tragg was not there... He was probably snuggled up with Judge Kelly Ann at her loft...






"Ohhhhhh Arthur..." she moaned.

"OUUUUUUUU KELLY ANNE , YOU ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!" he moaned as they lie on her soft sheets kissing like kissing was going out of style.


Night court was too low profile for him anyway....No witnesses...No media..and a bunch of  Judges  and ADA's who were mostly older Judges and ADA's about to retire...It was lightweight. It was in session from 7:00 pm- 10:00 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays...We were quite fortunate to get a date, and such an early one at that.


The ADA that did show up was not going to be the ADA that tried the case...He had only the basic out line of the case at hand... He basically wanted to go home...So he didn't really put up much of a fight.


"WOW!  You guys weren't playing....Got me arraigned the very next night ....I love it..I hope you can get me out...I want to sleep in my bed...That jail bed was hard...."said Brenda.

 Yvette smiled as she began her opening argument, Arguing that Brenda Jordan , a distinguished attorney and officer of the court had no prior arrests or convictions and was a solid citizen, not a flight risk who eagerly awaited her day in court to fight these outrageous and egregious charges. 


Alexa was with us so much she was starting to feel like a permanent fixture in our group.
She piggy backed on Yvette's argument...


Anita was also with us tonight...Once again shadowing Alexa... We wisely thought it better if Thomas White did not show up tonight.

"Our work is cut out for us tonight." I said.
''We'll be alright, I'm sure." said Bee Bee.
"We are successful most of the time here." said Sofia.
"I can't see why tonight would be any different." said Kahlil.

The four of us, Myself, Bee Bee, Sofia and Kahlil called 5 charactor witnesses a piece, A total of twenty
people...
All vetted and located by Jade, our investigator, who testified to Brenda's sterling charactor...At least three of them were former lovers who wanted to get back in good with Brenda and perhaps back in her bed.


The Judge knew all of us and Brenda as well... He released Brenda on her own recognizance... No Bail.

The Bail Bondsman we brought along smiled...His services wouldn't be needed tonight.

We all went over to Sam Mother's Diner and had a late night Breakfast of sorts..







"It's nice to be sprung from the hoosegal." joked Brenda.


"Girl, I know that's right..." said Anita Brown..


"Hey I know you...You're, You're Anita Brown, the Mayor's wife.. I didn't know you were an attorney!" said Brenda.

"That's right, graduated from PENN LAW a few years back, Was an Assistant District Attorney and a Lecturer at Middleton Law School...Now I'm an Associate Attorney at McCluskey/Cozen/Connor and Pratt...Oh! And the Mayor and I are divorced.." explained.. Anita.


"Oh I'm sorry.." said Brenda.

"It's alright.." said Anita. 

 "I know you're anxious to get home, get a shower and get a good nights rest....Keith, give her a business card, I'm all out.." said Yvette,.

I passed her a business card.


"Yvette, you know I know where your office is...But uh can you give me a ride home? They towed my car....It's in evidence." said Brenda.

"It is late and night time..." said Bee Bee.
"Yeah.." agreed Alexa.
"We can drop you off at your home." said Sofia.
''Sure...Let's pay our bill and get outta here." said Kahlil.

"Yeah..I want to go home, see my husband." said Jade with a smile.

We all piled into Jade's Pathfinder and drove everybody home...




After we all got home from Night Court..We were all settled down with our significant others.. What better way to spend a night in early Fall than to be making love.?
Bee Bee was wearing another sheer see through Baby doll.....She had just taken a hot shower and walked into our bedroom..

My eyes popped out of my head..She had on a new bra and matching panties that I hadn't seen before.

She giggled..

"A successful evening for the most part.. "she said.
I pulled her towards me..It's about to get even more successful" I said.

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." she giggled..Her body was shaking in anticipation....



"Oh My God Bee Bee...You are so sexy....but then you always have been, as long as I've known you." I said.

"Awwwwwwwwwwww...I wished you had talked like this in law school..We could've had so much fun." she giggled.

I undressed and  unhooked her bra  and slipped her panties down and off  and took her into my arms and kissed her softly....

Who could ask for anything more?

"Ohhhhh my godddd, Bee Bee..."I moaned...

"Ummmmmm, ouuuuuuuuuuuu you are so hard....Ouuuuuu, look at youuuu!" she exclaimed as she stroked me lightly...


We lie across the bed, kissing and practically slobbering over each other....


"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Bee Bee..." I moaned..

"OH MY GODDDDD YOU'RE SO BIGGG!. SO DAMN HARD HOT STUFF! OUUUUUUUU!" she moaned..

"You're so SOFT AND WET!" I said...



"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOT STUFFF!" she cried out....

"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM YOU FEEL SO DAMN GOOD!" I cried out...

"SO DO YOUUUUUUUU!!! " she cooed...

Soon we were making love passionately on top of the bed..

The next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS, all we were thinking about was each other..

The same was next door at Kahlil and Sofia's house..



Sofia and Kahlil were lying across the bed..


Kissing ,fondling and laughing..

He unhooked her bra and  slipped her panties down and off...



"OHHHHHHHH MAMASITA!!!" he moaned...

"OHHHHHHHHHH PAPI!" she cooed.

"OUUUUUUUUUUU PAPI...AYE MIOS DIOS! You are sooo damn hard! OUUUUU! AND BIG! AYE MIOS DIOS" Sofia moaned  as she rode him on the side of the bed until neither one of them could take anymore...




"You've always gotten me hard mamasita." said Kahlil.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed.




before they too were making sweet love for the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS!

"Ummmmmmm I've thought about you all day....I've got a boner for you that won't quit." moaned Gary..
"I've thought about you too....UMMMMMMMMMM!"moaned Ms. Yvette.
"Ummmmmmmmm, I couldn't wait until you got home." said Gary...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Gary!.I couldn't wait to get home." Yvette moaned..

He unhooked her bra and slipped her panties down...

Yvette eased herself down on Gary's waiting penis...Gary felt how warm and wet she was and was simply delirious with pleasure....He knew how hard she was working lately.
They had been making sweet love since They got in the door .....Downstairs on the couch
And then straight  to the bedroom..


"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU GARYYYYYY!" Yvette  moaned  as she rode him on the side of the bed until neither one of them could take anymore...

"UMMMMMMMMMMMM VETTIE GIRRRRL!" moaned Gary..


"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HUSBAND!" Yvette moaned..

They had made love early into the morning hours....
Enjoying  their massive and  smart bed.. 

Yvette smiled..

The bed was sturdy and very very comfortable...It moved with their every move and was very comfortable and warm..It actually enhanced their lovemaking..

NINE TO TEN HOURS had passed by.


 Bee Bee and I were fast asleep in each others arms..


Sofia and Kahlil were in each others arms and still kissing, almost asleep.




And Gary and Ms. Yvette were sound asleep..



A nice stress buster for a long day.

And At Ms. Jade's House...

"I'm so glad you finally came home." said Danny...



"I'm glad to be home with you too. This was a hell of a day.." said Jade.


"Come here..." said Danny, pulling her towards him..

They kissed passionately..
Standing in the middle of their bedroom kissing passionately.





Danny slipped her panties down....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH JADEEEEEEE!!!" he moaned..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM DANNY!" she cooed...
She eased herself down on Danny slowly.....they began kissing...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUU JADE!" he moaned. He didn't know if he was coming or going....

"OHHHHHHHHHHH HUSBAND!" she cooed.

They began making love. 




Enjoying a nice warm spring afternoon and night. At Ms. Virginia's House, a few doors down...




"Jetty!! You're staring at me like you want to rip my clothes off."said Ms. Virginia.
"Oh I would never do that...You pay good money for your clothes....Hey by the way have your breasts gotten larger?" he asked..

"No Smarty, they haven't! You asked me that before!" laughed Virginia..
"Well uh let me uh see....Unzip that dress, let me take a look." he asked slyly and unzipped her dress , slipped it off  and began kissing her..

"Ummmmmmmmmm are you sureeee?" he asked..
"I'm positive...but I think your penis got bigger...Ouuuuu lawddd!" said Ms. Virginia..

"I'm certain it has...especially in the last few seconds...Heh Heh Heh!" he laughed.

"I just know it has... Does it ever go down? Myy goodness." laughed Virginia.

"Not when you're around..it stays hard all day..." he said.

"I believe it!" she said..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...OUUUUUUUUUU VIRGINIA, I'M SO HORNY RIGHT NOW...I CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT!" he said.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YEAH!" she said and they both giggled in between smouldering hot kisses.


He unhooked her bra...


He slipped her panties down...
and humped her over the bed....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YOU NASTY DOGGGG!  OUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she screamed out...

Jetty was on top of her and didn't know if he was coming or going... She always smelled so good, Her skin was so soft...and her voice was so entrancing, he couldn't control himself..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH VIRGINIA, LAWWWD!!!" He cried out..

"YOU LIKE IT DADDY?" she asked him..\

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! I LOVE IT!!!" he moaned..
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH VIRGINIA, LAWWWD!!!" He cried out..

"YOU LIKE IT DADDY?" she asked him..\

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned..

"I TAKE IT THAT'S ANOTHER YES!  YOU NASTY DOGGGG!  OUUUUUUUUUUUU! " she said...

"LAWD!!" he mumbled as they made sweet love..for the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS. He was deeply in love in a way he had never been before...Virginia loved that a man loved her this much....




Such a nice night! ,after such a long day for us.


And at Thomas White's Loft....
''What color panties are you wearing tonight?" Thomas asked Anita..
"They aren't black." she said as she reached under her skirt and slipped them off.. They were Blue striped with black lace around the edges..


"Any Objections?" she asked.

"NO! NONE AT ALL!" he said with a wry smile.


"I didn't think you'd have any." she whispered softly....


They slowly undressed, He lifted her up and placed her on top of his chest of drawers, parted her legs and entered her warm wet center...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHH THOMASSSS!" she moaned...Her legs and entire body shaking..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMM ANITAAAA!" he moaned as he began to slowly thrust inside of her...

For the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS....they were in total bliss.




III-

THE NEXT MORNING-

We were all having Breakfast at the Bridge Building where we worked.



Everybody had gotten their food and was sitting down at our tables. 

 "Glad you could make it to breakfast Anita." said Yvette.

"WOWWW! THIS PLACE IS MORE LIKE A FIVE STAR RESTAURANT!" exclaimed Anita.

"AND THEY HAVE SUCH A WIDE CHOICE OF FOOD...." exclaimed Thomas White.

"Once you pay and get in, you can anything you want and as much of it." I said.
"Another reason we love it here." said Bee Bee.


"I love it here too! I wish I worked in this building." said Alexa.


''We wished you worked in this building too." said Sofia.
"You're almost like part of the team." said Kahlil.

''Well for now..She is part of the team." said Jade.



''And so is Anita." added Virginia.

"Yesss Lawd!" whispered Jetty to himself, who admired Anita's big shapely legs and nice figure,

 

Brenda Jordan was with us also...Early because she wanted to eat...

"I never miss a chance to eat a meal here." she said.


"I remember you from way back, When I was like the only one in this building."said Jazzy..

"That was when it first opened up...Now aren't you glad you have all of this company?" said her husband, Dabnis.
"Especially with it's Gym and it's Spa." said Kayla.
''Wait! There is a Gym and a Spa in this building?" asked Anita.

''Sure is...a few floors up..You can play racquet ball, sit in a suana, take a nice mid day shower...The works." said Ray.

"Oh My God!!! This is an excellent building to work in." said Anita.

"We love it..."said Jessica.
"It's away from everything and everybody..."said her husband Chip.
"People that work in town think that this is a wasteland, a barren lonely exile." said Karen.


"They don't know that we have each other, and a bangin cafeteria where we are guaranteed 3 square meals..." said Natalie.
"And a Gym and a spa...I love it here." said David.
"We all love it here."said Brooke.
"I don't work in this building...I work down the street in the Federal Building... I come here to eat with her, but I love the atmosphere....The Food, everything." said Sean.
"It's a great building to work in..." said Zoey...
"And it's on Penns Landing...Great view of the river." said Lem.
"I see you're a big fan already Anita." said Renee.

"I am." laughed Anita.

"We can give you a building pass where you can come in and join us whenever you want." said Tyrell.
"Yeah, you're an attorney so you have legitimate business in here." said Paris.
"Yeah..." said Tony.


"We work down the street in the Women's Law Center, Ms. Nina and her husband, Carlos and I and we use our building passes to eat all of our meals here." said Lee.
"I work upstairs." said Matthew.
"I'm down the street in the Women's Law Center." said Nina.
"So Do I." said her husband, Carlos.

"You've got a good thing going on here." said Anita,.


After breakfast, we all went up to our conference room...It was the moment of Truth-


Brenda was going to come clean about this file XL5 and the murder behind it..

"What I'm about to tell you all stays in this room....Micheal Enright was like you Vettie, A recently named Managing Partner at Monsoon and Wedgeworth, Attorneys at Law. I didn't kill him, I wouldn't have...He was my client!!

He had recently lost a big case , a huge multi-million dollar litigation against a major corporation... He suspected that the Judge in that case. Roland Scanlon...

This guy here" she said and showed us a glossy photo of him was biased and on the take.. He as much accused him of such....Judge Scanlon sued him and threatened to take him before the legal ethics board.

That's when Enright hired me , an outside attorney to look into his charges... I hired an investigator, Bert Vandenberg


to look into the Judge... We found that the Judge has an expensive Yacht, moored at a Marina in South Jersey....He has an expensive summer home in South Carolina and he has a private plane in Northeast Philly...All purchased in the last four years...And all supposedly purchased with just his Judges salary...
A further look into the Judges actions and we discovered that he received several huge payoffs from not just the corporation that Micheal Enright was representing , but from several corporations that paid him to rule favorably on their behalf... We uncovered several records , bank records that showed payoffs to his bank here and transfers to an account in the Caymen Islands...I compiled all of this information into a file... FXL5...I was going to present it to the Board of Ethics....

I made a mistake..I informed the Judge that I planned to make this file public unless he agreed to step down from the bench.

He had a mole planted inside the law firm named Harold Fitzgerald...

or Fitch....Nobody seemed to know just what his job was, He wasn't an Attorney or Para-legal...He just seemed to be hanging around...I figured this Judge Scanlon was connected and might try to steal the files so I planted a dummy file in the office safe there.

Sure enough it went missing. Now we knew it was him... Shortly after the file went missing, so did Fitch!" said Brenda.

"Michael Enright was my immediate supervisor. He gave me the file for safekeeping..It was marked confidential....I didn't look into it.. I kept it locked in my safe in my loft.. Fitch couldn't have known about me.." said Thomas White.

 

 "He could if he cloned Enright's phone..." said Yvette.


"He probably would have broken into your loft ,beat your safe and stolen the file...but he didn't get to you in time." said Alexa.

"Hod did he not?  It was easy enough to do." I said.
"Yeah or did you keep the file on you?" asked Bee Bee.

"I kept it on me... Mr. Enright told me to get a room at a hotel and not to tell him where..He said the firm would pay for it...So I went to the Hilton..Took out a room and kept the file with me there."said Thomas White.

"Wow!  You were taking a big risk!." said Sofia.
"You sure were..." said Kahlil.

"What happened next?" asked Jade.

"Monday Night Mr. Enright called me...Told me to bring him the file...I was miles away, but I drove to the Motel he was staying at with the file.." said Thomas White.

"Motel? Doesn't he live in an expensive townhouse?" asked Anita, who understood now why Thomas had taken her to the Hilton, the night they first hooked up.
"He does, but I guess he was hiding..Scanlon was not going to be exposed...he could 've faced criminal charges with what was in that file." said Thomas White.



Virginia brought some glasses and a pitcher of Sweet Tea to the table..




''So you brought it to Enright and when you got there, He was already dead and someone hit you with a sap and stole the file...All that evidence gone right?" said Yvette.


"Wrong!  I made photos and copies of everything in that file and put it in a zip drive...



"It's stored in a safe deposit box outside of Philadelphia.. Scanlon thinks all of his problems are over...He thinks by framing me for murder that I'll be gone soon but he's wrong." said Brenda.



"You always were a smart girl Brenda...One of the smartest attorneys I've ever met." said Yvette, smiling.



IV-


The next few days, Bee Bee, Sofia and Alexa did their research, They studied the Autopsy Reports, Crime Scene Photos , Witness Statements, Laws from simular cases, General Laws and predicates..


"Ms Yvette says this is the boring grunt work that all good attorneys have to do that doesn't get seen in court or on television." said Bee Bee.



"It's like being back in law school.." said Sofia with a smile.


"I know...but in the end it's worth it...If you come with receipts in the courtroom." said Alexa.



"She's learning." said Sofia with a smile.


"Yes she is." laughed Bee Bee.


Right next door...Kahlil and I were in our media room giving Anita a crash course on juror selection.

''We look at our client...In this case, Brenda Jordan, A Young attractive Middle class well educated white woman and we try to tailor our jurors to her..."said Kahlil.
"We have a record of the Juror pool and we try to get that certain juror based on race, age, education, economic status, voting record, and in some cases religion or lack of it.., sexual orientation, the works ." I said,.

"In other words, a real jury of her peers ,if you can." said Anita, who caught on fast..


"Exactly! If we get six or seven out of twelve possibles...That's a win for our side." said Kahlil.


"I used to play bait and switch, tricking my opposing counsel into thinking I didn't want a certain juror, so that they would pick my juror for me..."said Anita...


I smiled "She's got it...She learns fast." I said.


"That's what we do." said Kahlil.


Yvette, Jade, Virginia and Brenda sat across the street at her favorite coffee shop talking and enjoying coffees.



"You always were a smart girl Brenda...One of the smartest attorneys I've ever met." said Yvette, smiling. "I want you to be careful, Take care of yourself and keep a low profile..Don't mentin that zip drive anymore..You never know where Scanlon or this Fitch person may be." said Yvette,.


"I do need to get out of sight...I think I'm going home and pack a few clothes and toiletries in my trunk and attempt to find a place to stay...I don't have to use my real name in this case." said Brenda.

"No you don't." laughed Yvette.


"I've located this Fitch person... His real name is Harold Fitzgerald...He's a low level hood..and contract killer.... He took a flight out of Philly to Miami, Florida a week ago and opened up an account in Miami of over 200 large....and is living on the beach..." said Jade.


"That is probably the man who killed Enright and stole the file." said Virginia.


"Probably destroyed  the original." said Yvette.


"Thinks he's home free."said Brenda.

Just then a familliar face walked in..

"Well Hello Ladies." said Olivia..   "Your people told me you guys were over here." she said.


"OLIVIA, GIRL, I NEED A FAVOR!" said Yvette, hugging her best friend..

"What do you need?" asked Olivia.


"Now that's a friend indeed!"laughed Brenda as their coffees arrived.








(TO BE CONTINUED)