''Kevin,I really appreciate you doing this for me...but I can still drive and I could have had Bonita drive me here."she said smiling..
"I know..but since I can do this...I might as well.."I said.
"Have you been to work this week?" She asked.
''Actually ,I have...I've worked three half days...Monday,Tuesday and Thursday." I said.
"It's a good thing you're the boss and owner....How did you keep a job before when the Harris Group owned your company?" she asked..
"I owe Sean and Sheila Jackson my life...They covered for me...a lot of times...Which is why when I bought the company and became the boss...I made Sheila the Deputy CEO and Sean, Chief of Staff and bumped their salaries up...They've both been good friends.." I said..
"Indeed"....said Sepia...
II-
''No..I don't want to know the sex of the baby Dr. Meadows...I want it to be a surprise." said Sepia..
I smiled wryly....
Dr. Meadows...An African-American Doctor who reminded me of my Mother a little bit smiled at me..
''Well don't you want to know what color to buy for the baby? Don't you have a name planned?"she asked...
"If it's a boy...Kevin Jr. She said..."And if it's a girl...Kimberly" she continued...
I shrugged my shoulders....
Dr. Meadows just smiled..
"Oh Well...take care of yourself and make sure you don't over exert.." she said.
"I won't..."
"Take care." she said as we left..
I drove her back home....
"I can't believe the murderer is who you said it is Kevin..." she said.
"It indeed is...I should have seen it from the beginning..."I said...
I kissed her...
''I'll see you this afternoon ." I said.
''You'd better." she said.
III-
"Hey Kevin...Sissy and the guys are out...They caught a big case...but they brought me up to speed and they left some things for you...." she said.
"They did?" I said.. This felt funny....I was used to Sissy and the guys being on hand when I closed one of my cases...I felt funny with them not being here...
"Yes...That bullet retrieved from Nathaniel Deal's body is from a gun that is five years old and the same gun used in the Heist in Newark....That car...Same car used in the heist and get this....the fingerprints are a match for this so called deceased person....and there is more...We got video of guess who ,parking that car and leaving the high rise right about the time Mr. Deal had just been killed.." she said.
"Wow, Sissy and the guys wrapped my case up for me..."I said.
"All that remains now is to go pick em up." she said.
"Yeah...When are they coming back?" I asked...
"What am I, chopped liver ?" she said.
"Noo..Nooo....You're FBI...This aint really a federal case..."I said.
Sharon yelled out - "Sirena....Boo..Boo...Yall feel like making a pick up with Kev?"
Detective Tony Hopkins, her very lucky husband walked over to her....
She gave him a very wet ,nasty, sexy kiss that made me long for my wife's pregnancy to hurry up and end...
"I'm sorry baby,sometimes I forget..." she said...
I just smiled...
''I just called a couple of officers and I called the Wyncote Police Department....Let's go."she said.
IV-
I had two manilla envelopes with me when I knocked on the door...A man came to the door...He was handsome, about six feet, well dressed, close cropped hair...
''May I help you?" he said.
"Hello sir...I'm Kevin Morris...I'm a private investigator...This is FBI Special Agent ,Sharon Ferrell-Hopkins, Detective Tony Hopkins and Detective Sirena Pile, Philadelphia Homicide..We are here to see your wife." I said.
He saw three Philadelphia uniformed policemen behind us and three Wyncote uniformed policemen on the steps...
"What the devil? Private Investigator, Homicide Detectives?? FBI??? You want to see my wife?? Karalynn!!" he said.
Karalynn walked into the living room ...She was holding her sleeping one year old child...She saw me and she smiled..
"Ohhhh Mr. Morris...." she said.
"You know these people?" he said.
"He and his wife stopped by the other day....They are looking into Lisa Crawley's unsolved murder...I told you about her...The girl I came to Philly with who vanished and was found dead."she said.."You guys find out anything new?" she asked just as innocently....
"Uh as a matter of fact we did...Can we step inside??" I said...
I took out two glossy photos of a man and a woman...
"You recognize either of them?" I asked..
She looked hard...
"No...I don't recognize them at all...You think they killed Lisa?" she said.
"No, I don't.."I said dryly...
"Who are they?" she asked.
"They're your deceased mother and father Karalynn...If you were Karalynn, you would have recognized them...Am I starting to make sense now LISA...LISA CRAWLEY?? "I said.
She looked incredulous....Her Husband was livid...
"What are you trying to say? Get out of my house...with this nonsense." said her husband...
"The other day ,when I was here, I swiped this piece of paper that you touched...Your prints and the prints we found on the mirror of that old Torino that you drove and parked at Nate Deal's house after you killed him match the deceased Lisa Crawley....Who had a record....Not Karalynne...So then I looked you up to find out who you were...No parents, no relatives....No one would care if you were missing...and you almost looked like dead ringers....She was perfect...She was your way out...Either you or Nathaniel killed her and buried her and you took on her identity.. Knowing that no one would miss her and no one ever suspect that you were her...When she was discovered...You just misidentified her body...See , I caught you in a lie the other day when we were here...You said that Nathaniel Deal wasn't on the bus with you two when you fled Newark...Turns out he was...I found a record of him boarding...He paid for his ticket and yours with a debit card. Oh and we got you on video parking that car in the lot of his high rise, right after he was murdered the other night....These officers here have a search warrant to search your house... I'm betting they'll find the gun, the murder weapon you used to kill him with somewhere in this house...Lisa...Do I need any more ?" I said.
She began to cry.....
Her husband looked at her...
"Who the hell are you?" he said.
Just then , Agatha Crawley walked into the house...She looked at Lisa...
"Oh My God...Lisa...All this time...I thought you were dead..All this time I tried to figure out who killed you and you were alive all this time?? Perpetrating this fraud??WHO ARE YOU??" she said.
"Mama...I'm a good girl....I got my bachelors...and my masters and I met a nice guy and that's your grandson right there....I've been a good girl...I swear...I swear.." she said, crying profusely....
The police escorted her out of the house...as other police searched the house...
"We found the gun!" said an officer who put the weapon in a plastic bag...
I put my arm around Agatha Crawley...
"I'm sorry." I said.
"Don't be...You followed the evidence and you found the truth...That's all I could ask...She did get an education and meet a nice fella...She did do good for herself in a way....Just never figured her for a double murderer....Damn!" she said and walked away...
I looked up and there was Lt. Sissy Van Buren, Carlotta, Tyriq, Duke and Jimmy walking up the steps..
"Ohhhh ,you showed up to the party after all." I said.
"Yeah, we closed another case earlier and we had some time...So we stopped by here....Looks like you wrapped everything up."said Sissy..
''Yeah..case closed."I said.
"Wow...Dominick's case closed by a P.I. four years later....And to think...He could have done this." said Carlotta.
"No he couldn't...This was too complicated for him." said Tyriq..
"Check" laughed Duke..
"Double check" laughed Jimmy.
Carlotta smiled...They all knew what she thought of Dominick Evans....and it was not much..
''Well I'm just glad this case is closed...Just not the way I expected." I said.
"The weird cases are always like that." she said.
EPILOUGE:
Lisa Crawley said that Nathaniel Deal murdered Karalynne...There is no way to know which one of them actually killed her...but there was ample enough to prove she murdered Nathaniel Deal to keep him quiet...
She was convicted of Manslaughter in the death of Karalynn and First Degree Murder for Nathaniel Deal...
She received a Life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years....She got off lighter than most double murderers..
I rubbed Sepia's feet as she lay on her side...Her stomach was too big now for her to lay on it...
"When I have this baby...I'm going to the gym with Sissy ,Carlotta and Angie Belton and work out...get my body back.." she said.
I smiled..
"Just have a healthy baby first...Then we'll worry about that." I said.
"Don't you want me to be sexy again?" she said.
"You never stopped being sexy to me.." I said.
"Awwwwwwwww." she said and sat up and kissed me...
"Shame about Lisa Crawley ,actually being alive.." she said.
"She had a lot of work done...Plastic surgery....but she couldn't hide everything..." I said.
"Her poor mother...all she wanted was to know her daughter was a good girl , had made a life for herself."said Sepia...
"In a sense...She did make a new life for herself...In a psychopathic kinda way." I said.
Sepia smiled wryly...
I kissed her forehead.
8 comments:
WOW That totally threw me for a loop! I never suspected that KaraLynn was actually Lisa! Great twist!
Nice! I totally was not aware of the plot twist...I didn't see that coming..Loved this!
I loved this...This was actually one of your better Kevin Stories..
Wow...That was kind of frightening ,that someone could murder someone and take their identity for so long..Her own husband didn't know!
This was one of your better Kevin stories...Keep em coming...I love Sissy and Carlotta and Olivia and Bev...But without Kevin..We wouldn't have met any of these great charactors..They all started with him.
Mann, the ending of this caper really jolted me...I didn't see that coming...Just goes to show ...You can't sleep on Kevin..
Great story as usual!
I had no clue how this was going to end...That was an incredibly surprising ending...Good job!
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