Carlotta smiled....
"Ohhh thank you so much Mimi.." she said as Mimi handed her a Latte...
The two women stood and looked at the riverfront as they sipped their tumblers of coffee and talked...
"This is nice ,us two girls just hanging out on a Saturday Morning....Say ,where is your husband?" asked
Mimi...
"This camera is picking up real good...I'm getting the clearest vision ever...it's like watching Television." said Hop.
''A little gift from our favorite FBI Agent, Sharon Hopkins....Your wife and Homeland Security." said Jimmy.
"Yeah she told them that we were watching someone named Ahmid Muhhamad." laughed Sirena....
"Girl you need to stop." laughed Sissy as she passed them tumblers of coffee.
''We got plain clothes guys in position?" I asked.
"Relax Keith...I got the area covered..."said Duke...
"She's your baby, but she was our partner and protoge' first...We are not going to let anything happen to Top." said Tyriq...
I knew that...It was just nice to hear them say it...
"He's hanging out with his friends...Two other detectives in our unit....You know, guy stuff, haircut, then basketball in the park...Then he'll come home and be all over me..." said Carlotta laughing..
"You are sooo lucky to have a husband...and such a handsome husband too...Be careful with him honey...There are some scandalous chicks out here....Right under your nose...and you know what I'm talkin about... Your so called best friend...Sharon....I don't trust her as far as I can throw her...but I know you always loved her...." said Mimi...
''Sharon is good people.."said Carlotta.
"Hmmmph....The way she treated Hop,always trading up for the next best thing...Poor guy was just so sprung, he stayed in love with her...Damn if I would have married her after a lifetime of taking crap from her like he did....but I guess she put that thing on him...Gave him a little taste and the poor guy just couldn't help himself.."said Mimi...
"Mimi that's cruel...Don't talk about my friend like that....She is not a bad person..."said Carlotta...
"Well maybe not to you...She didn't steal anybody of yours like she did me...." said Mimi...
"Who did she steal from you?" asked Carlotta..
"Paul Witherspoon." she said.
''Paul Witherspoon?"asked Carlotta...
"I loved him with all my heart from day one in ninth grade....He was my first...I lost my virginity to him...and he left me for Sharon...In the 11th grade, right before the junior prom..."said Mimi icily...
"Mimi, that was years ago...you can't still be mad about that."said Carlotta.
"He broke up with me in the 11th grade to date Sharon....And she didn't want him...She just wanted to make Gary jealous...because he had cheated on her with your sister."said Mimi..
"Mimi, Paul tried to talk to me...He was calling my house every night for awhile....Even came over to my house.."said Carlotta...
"Yeah, but you shut him down." said Mimi..
"My boyfriend, Mickey Lolo shut him down." said Carlotta...
"Yeah, how is he?" asked Mimi..
"He's dead....He was in the life you know....and he was killed by his own people..."said Carlotta.
''Wowwww...I remember you two were engaged and he broke up with you when he found out you were going to become a cop....His loss, dumb ass.." said Mimi...
"So Mimi..When was the last time you saw Paul or Gary?" asked Carlotta...
"Oh it's been years...After High school...I was at Community College for awhile and working and Paul and I ran into each other....He took me to AC for the weekend and we wound up hooking up again and getting engaged... I thought ..I thought...well this is it..I've finally got him, you know...Months went by...We were planning, We had picked a site...My dress was ready, invitations were about to be sent out and just like that, three months before we were to get married...He came to me, crying..saying that he had run into Claudette Robinson and they had got to talking and he realized that she was his true love....He broke off our engagement...Carlotta ,I had never been so humilated in my life."she said crying and slobbering profusely.."
Carlotta put her arms around her and held her....
"Don't cry...Don't cry mami..." she said.
"So you never saw Paul Witherspoon again?" asked Carlotta...
"Nooo never.."she said.
"You ever run into his friend, Gary?" she asked...
"Yeah....a few months ago...We ran into each other...He asked me for my number..but I.....I didn't give it to him....All he wanted was to get me in the bed...again..."she said.
''You slept with Gary?" asked Carlotta..
"In High school to get back at Sharon for stealing Paul from me...and a couple of times after high school before Paul and me got engaged and a couple of times after Paul broke off the engagement...before I left for Chicago...but I haven't dealt with either of those losers in years...They just passed me around and then discarded me like I'm discarding this coffee cup" she said and began crying again and tossed her cup into a nearby waste recepticle...
She composed herself and lit a cigarette...
"I didn't know you smoked Mimi.."said Carlotta...
"Yeah,it's a bad habit I picked up.....It takes the stress off when I get in my moods..."she said.
"Let's talk about something pleasent..."said Carlotta smiling sweetly...
Mimi took long drags off of her cigarette and tossed the but into the same trash recepticle...
A trash man ,who was actually a plain clothes cop immediately came and gathered the plastic trash bag and replaced it with an empty one...and walked away....
The two women talked for another hour..
III-
"If Mimi is the killer..I would hate to have to bust her...She's been through a lot."said Carlotta..
"Wow...She hates me...She's hated me all this time...I thought so..And I guess I deserve it...I haven't been the nicest person...Look how I treated you guys when we first met...That bank robbery case.. Look at my career...D.C. , Atlanta, New Orleans...The local P.D. hated me..."said Sharon ,who looked close to tears...
"I don't know what happened between you and the Atlanta P.D. or the D.C. P.D. but the Philadelphia Police Department loves you girl." she said and hugged Sharon...
"Mimi is hurting...Hurt people ,hurt people.."said Carlotta.
''Always" said Carlotta.
Jimmy walked in the conference room just then-
"Lotta, Sharon...This is a little disturbing....We called Chicago P.D. and ran a cross check on any simular murders and we got one...A white male, Damon Nestle....went missing a few years ago and was found in the park in a half dug grave , with a gunshot wound to the back of the head...This was last year...The case went cold.." said Sirena...
"Guess who David Nestle was? He was Mimi Honeywell's husband..."said Hop...
Some hours later ,Duke and Tyriq came in with a young man who recognized Carlotta and Sharon...
"Carlotta Rodriguez??? ,Sharon Ferrell?/ You guys are cops??"he exclaimed, laughing...
"Rennie...Is that you??" they exclaimed...
"Yeah...I told Mimi that Paul was no good and I asked her out on a date....she turned me down.."said Rennie.
''Let's just say...This is one time...It was good you got turned down."
We all busted out laughing.
Hazel finally walked into the conference room...
Both Carlotta and Sharon hung their heads..
Tyriq smiled...So did Duke...
Once we were home...I put my arm around Carlotta and held her tight...
She looked at me and smiled-
"I am now..and it is so sweet of you to try and comfort me..." she said as she buried her head in my chest....
"That's my job..I'm your husband.."I said.
"But you're not just a little bit horny? You've been checking me out in this yellow dress all morning...I've seen you." she said ,giving me the side eye...
''Welllll, maybe just a little bit." I said..
"Yeahhhhh, maybeeee..."she laughed...
Carlotta laughed and kissed me softly and tenderly and long...She rubbed my legs and the crotch of my pants..
''You are definitely horny now." she said and we both laughed..
I pulled her to me and kissed her longer..
"Yeahhhhh, maybeeee..."I laughed...
(CONCLUSION NEXT)
4 comments:
We know the killer is Mimi...Now it's just a matter of how they capture her....It's going to be hard for Carlotta and Sharon considering they were all friends and traveled in the same circles..
I knew the killer was Mim from the first time she appeared..
I imagine it would be extremely difficult to have to arrest a friend for murder and in this case two or three murders...knowing that they may be locked up for the rest of their lives or possibly be getting a death sentence.
From a legal standpoint...They have a very circumstantial case..All they have is the fact that Mimi lied about seeing them...She may have had sex with them and she was in their company..They don't have her prints on the murder weapon and no eye witness...Just a co-incidence that her ex-husband is one of the victims...They need a confession.
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