I stayed in the room on top of Josie's for two days...I used a clean phone to call Sepia at Robert and Bonita Foxworth's house and talk to her...
From Josie's I could even see her and Bonita being escorted to work by Clerow and Owen Todd and escorted back from work... Honey Brown brought me my meals and a laptop computer and a fax machine...
From that little room, I did my research....
I had already seen Eddie Sutton and Philly Pierce's extensive Police and FBI files when I had been with Agent Ferrell two days before...Both guys were local guys...Sutton had moved out to the midwest and aligned himself with Big Uncle and become a ranking figure in his organization while Philly Pierce had aligned himself with Camden Crime Kingpin, Cat Daddy, who I had not yet met...Yet I knew that the day was coming when we would meet face to face...We were on a collision course.
I wasn't worried about Eddie Sutton...He had sub-contracted the hit from out of Detroit...I was however concerned with Philly Pierce...He had two addresses in Philadelphia...I had called Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson and Sean Jackson and told them to meet me at my job in the basement...
I know I was making myself a sitting duck, but I couldn't stay in this room all week...I met them there and gave them the two addresses on Philly Pierce...I told them to check them out... I had checked city records and had found that he had been paying utility bills on both...
Within hours I had the information I needed....Both homes were fronts....A young lady who he spent a few nights with lived in one....and the other was mostly empty....Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson and Sean Jackson had broke into both and wired them for sound and video... I had gotten them two cell phone numbers for Pierce and they had cloned both of his phones...Now they'd be able to hear and read anything of importance that came his way..... The FBI had been on Sutton...Not Pierce...but that was okay...We were on Pierce.
I returned to Josie's and packed my things....It was time to move again...I needed a big favor!
II-
''Kevin...Uh, what brings you here?" she said.
"I need a big favor." I said.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Can I stay here with you for just a few nights?" I asked.
"Wha-What? , Aren't you married?" she said looking at me with a sheepish grin...
"It's not like that Jean....I've got somebody after me...I've had to send my wife away for her safety...No one would think to look for me here...No one I know, knows I know you." I said.
"Well ,uh okay...I could use the company." she said.
"Thank you and to pay you back...I'll look into what's up with Rollie." I said.
"Ohhh thank you Kevin." she said and gave me a light kiss on the lips....
She smiled...
"Oh ,I'm sorry...It's not that kind of party is it?" she smiled...giving me the side eye...
"No Jean...it's not!" I said.
III-
"I know...I've been keeping a low profile..."I said.
"I know...That's good...because we've picked up more conversation from our wire tap...Listen." she said and she played me the latest...
"What's goin on Philly?"
"Heyyy man, I thought you said your guy was a pro, the best."
"He is...What's the problem?"
"Man...it's been nearly a week and Kevin Morris is still alive..He aint been at his house...Aint been at his job or that bar he hangs out in...Aint been seen...It's almost like he vanished into thin air."
"You think he got tipped off?"
"By who? Nobody knows about this except you and me and Slim Shady.."
"You sure?"
"Yeah...I didn't even tell my people."
"Maybe he took a vacation.."
"Yeah...well I hope he returns soon.."
"Look Shady is so good...He hit a guy in police custody once..a guy name Leonard Custard..."
"Yeah,I remember that...a few years back..That was you?"
"Yeah...I had it done for Big Uncle...Custard was holding out on his tribute tax money...Heh, heh,heh.."
"Well damn then...I guess I'll just wait.."
"Yeah...sit tight...Shady is good...And check this out...He was once a cop!"
"What?..Yeah...He was once a homicide detective on the Detroit Police force...damn good detective too...He knows how to find people...He'll find this Kevin guy."
"Word!"
She passed me a file...
"That's the book on Christopher Cummings...Was in the Marine Corps for 12 years...Sniper...Got out joined the Detroit Police force, worked his way up to Homicide Detective...Then something went wrong...Nobody knows what exactly , but he resigned from the force and then bodies began dropping in the midwest and the east....He's been suspected, but never caught..." she said.
"Him being ex military and ex police...He knows how to cover his tracks.." I said.
"Exactly...but now...we got enough to bag Eddie Sutton and put him down for good and we got enough to snag Big Uncle..." she said...
"Which does me no good...Not until Chris Cummings either kills me or attempts to.." I said.
"We are going to start looking at Philly Pierce too.. He has two legal residences here in Philly." she said.
"Yeah...some girl lives in one and the other is empty...He's not staying at either place." I said.
"Yeah, no wonder..."I said.
"You've managed to glean all of that information while staying on the run huh?" she said..
"Yeah..My wife is with friends...and I've been moving around.." I said.
"Well you sure got our boys shook and confused.." she said.
"I'm not going to hide too much longer.."I said.
"Just stay put Kevin...Give us a chance to get these boys....We are soo close." she said.
"I know....well ,let me be going." I said...
She did something that surprised me...She grabbed me and hugged me...Another woman with a soft ,round body....Young Detective Hopkins was a lucky ,lucky man..
"Do be safe Kevin...I'm just meeting you....I want to be able to say that you've helped me close some cases." she said..
"I will make a point of that." I said and kissed her forehead...
"Be Easy Kevin" she said.
"Always." I said.
I thought of Sepia, Sissy, Carlotta, Jean and now Sharon Ferrell...All the woman who cared about me...I even thought about Detective Mercedes Rodriguez in San Jaun...I wondered what she was doing right about now...
I smiled and got into my car and pulled off...
IV-
So far,I had kept moving and hadn't been seen...but just knowing that I was being hunted made me antsy...I couldn't stay in hiding like this forever...I had to draw my killer out into the open...If this guy was as good as they said..This was very risky...but I had to take that chance...
So after three days...I thanked Jean...gave her some money and was on my way....Where to now? I didn't know...Perhaps a hotel, I thought...
I parked on the street and went to a pay phone...I hadn't been using my smart phone at all..afraid that this guy might have cloned my number or was tracking me with it...
Before I could put my hands on the phone...A .45 pistol butt was put in my back....
"Easy...Easy Ace...No sudden moves...You're going to take off that suit jacket." came the voice....
I took my jacket off and he took my .38 smokeless and tossed it into the back seat of my car...He took my .22 also....One of them...not the one in my ankle holster...Thank goodness...
"Okay, take off the Kevlar Vest and the trauma plate." he said..
I did and he put them in the back seat of my car.....
He took my car keys and tossed them on the front seat and then he locked my car...
"I know all about GPS systems in phones and on cars...We are taking my car." he said...
I turned and faced a tall , thin white male with sun glasses on and a tooth pick in his mouth...
"I expected a brother." I said.
"So you did know...How did you know? ,Who told you?" he asked.
"Does it matter? You got me now." I said.
He grinned...
"Get in my car..." he said.
"Where we going?" I said...
"For a long ride...Only....One of us aint comin back! Heh ,heh, heh.." he grinned....
I smiled...
"Nice Car."
(DEFINITELY TO BE CONTINUED...)
1 comment:
A lot of people have been getting the drop on Kevin this year...He's slipping...That's because he's got all of these women on his mind, Sepia, Sissy, Mercedes Rodriguez, Jean and Sharon Ferrell...Lucky devil!LOL!
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