Contessa

I had checked on our daughter....She was sleeping soundly....I got back in the bed with my wife,Sepia...and put both of my arms around her....She laid her head on my chest...
We drifted off into a peaceful sleep...

She ran her soft hands down into my pajama bottoms and began fondling me softly..I turned and looked at her ...She was smiling....I was smiling too and it wasn't long before I was as hard as a baseball bat...

"Ouuuuuuu, look at that!" said Sepia laughing and looking at me sheepishly...

"That was record time..."I said...

Her soft hands stroked me gently.....

"Ummmmmmmm.." she moaned....

We turned and looked at each other and began kissing each other softly....

"You got in late last night after I had drifted off to sleep." she said...

"Yeah...I was meeting with a client.." I said.

"New case uh..You haven't had one in awhile.."she said,continuing to softly stroke my engorged penis...

"I'll tell you something else I haven't had in a few days." I said.

"I was talking about the case...It's been two months.." she said.

"Well I'm talking about you..and a few days is like a month."I said , rolling over on top of her and kissing her and sucking on her breasts...

She slid my pajama bottoms down...

"I'm  not wearing any panties...I was prepared for you.." she said...

"I seee....."I said as I entered her.. I entered her softly and gently and began to stroke her softly and slowly....She moaned and put her arms around my neck and drew me closer to her..She wrapped her legs around my waste and we began to move in a slow, yet deliberate rhythm for quite some time...

"Ummmmmmm, oh my God Kevin...Ohhh my Godddd...."moaned Sepia....as our bed began to rock back and forth and squeak loudly under the weight of our lovemaking..

"Ouuuuuuuuu....ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Kevin...just like that...Just like that baby...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." she moaned...as I continued to move slowly ,yet deliberately...

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....OHHH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS." she screamed as I began to move in and out faster and harder...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." I moaned...as she held on tightly and began moving faster and harder.. I pulled her to me and began kissing her passionately.....

"I love you sooooooooooo muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." she moaned again as we continued.....two or three hours passed by...as we made sweet ,slow and passionate love....

We both came together...yelling and screaming and waking our daughter Kimberly...who began crying loudly.....

Sepia looked at me...

"It's your turn." she said.

"My turn?" I said.

"I don't have any clothes on Kevin..."she said.

I smiled...

I was going to let her get away with that this time..
II-

 Fathead had given me two more photos of his new girlfriend, Contessa....I hadn't told Sepia that he was my client...Fathead had said that he didn't want anyone to know he was in town...Including his friends...Which meant that outside of Ralph Mole...I was the only other person who knew his whereabouts...

All I told Sepia was that I had been hired to find this girl...I showed her the photos...And as I suspected..She had never seen her or heard of her...Strangely enough....That was the consensus amongst most people in her neighborhood who I inquired about her...

Nobody had seen her or heard of her...  This was strange...

Fathead had told me that Contessa had been born in the Dominican Republic and had come to the U.S. when she was 12....Had lived in Atlantic City for a little while and then moved to Philadelphia..

And so...My search for Fathead's missing girlfriend began....I called the Department of Public Records in Punta Cana and they had a Contessa Harris, but this person was much older than who I was looking for....They had no photos. I called the Department of Public records in Atlantic City and got them to fax me Contessa Harris's birth certificate and any medical records they had...which wasn't much!...Still no photo and I kept noticing the variance in age.

I next called the U.S. Customs house and got them to fax me Contessa Harris's Passport information...That gave me an address which I went to, only to find that this was  someone else's home and that three different families had lived in this house since then...None of the families I tracked down knew any Contessa!

I had a social security number and with that I got access to bank accounts and home addresses...This led me to several different places...None that she had lived in recently and to about ten different jobs the girl had held...the last one being last year...but when I showed them the photos I had....None of them recognized her!  The Contessa Harris they knew was at least a decade older than this girl they said.

This wasn't good at all...In fact it was sending up a lot of red flags... I searched further to find out if she had ever become a U.S. citizen....She had, but not the Contessa Harris I was looking for... I found a photo....This was a completely different woman...

There hadn't been any activity on any of Contessa Harris's credit cards or debit cards in a year...Very Strange...

I checked a number of hospitals....Checked the morgue...Checked to see if there were any death certificates..I found one....Contessa Harris was deceased!  At least the person I thought I had been looking for had been deceased for at least a year...Breast Cancer...

So then I began back tracking this woman's jobs...and asking if anyone had seen the girl I had in the photos...At the last known place this woman had worked I hit pay dirt..
There had been an Annette Allega ..Who fit the general description of this girl who had worked with Contessa up until Contessa got sick....

She was a whole different matter....This Annette Allega was born and raised right here in Philadelphia Pa.  Had been educated in the Philadelphia School Sytem...Had gone to Community College for two years ,graduated and entered Temple....dropping out after a semester...She had been arrested for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and had served six months in the county lock up and had been released...

After that ...She appeared to have cleaned her act up, working several jobs and living in a small apartment... I found the apartment...but of course she didn't live there anymore.. Couldn't locate the car....

I had an address...It was nowhere near the address that Fathead gave me...I went to the address....It was surprisingly enough ...The girl's mother...

She hadn't seen her daughter in six months and had contacted the Police...As much as I didn't want to...It was time to contact my favorite Lieutenant...Sissy Van Buren..of Homicide!

III-

I hadn't stood on the roof of the C.I.D. building with Lt. Sissy Van Buren in a long time..

"Where have you been Kevin?" she asked me as I passed her a steaming tumbler of Hot Coffee...

"Working...Chilling with Sepia and our baby." I said.

"So are you in semi -retirement?" she joked..

"Nah....just didn't have anything cross my desk in awhile..."I said.

"But now you do?" she said.

"Yeah." I said and showed her  photos of Annette Allegra alias Contessa Harris.

Sissy looked at her...

"Missing Persons is looking for her...So is Narcotics."said Sissy...

"So you know her?" I asked.

"I know about her case.. You've been hired to find her I take it?" said Sissy.

"Yeah."I said.

"Could I inquire by who? Her Mother doesn't have the kind of money to afford you."said Sissy.

"My uh client swore me to secrecy..."I said.

Sissy gave me the side eye...

"Okay Kevin..."she said.

"Don't do that to me Sissy." I said.

"Do what?" she said smiling mischieviously...

"I promise you...After I find her...I'll tell you the whole story." I said.

"Okay....We've been hunting this girl for months and we can't find her...She stole the identity of a recently deceased woman, I do know that!" said Sissy.

"Contessa Harris..I know."I said.

Sissy smiled..

"Then you know as much as we know..She hasn't broken any laws  outside of identity theft...and she is an adult...but she's been missing for awhile now and we haven't detected any action on her debit and credit cards or her bank accounts...I take it you have the make and model of her car?" said Sissy.

"Yeah...Haven't been able to locate the car.."I said.

"Like I said , you know as much as we do...but if I hear anything...I'll call you." she said..

I hugged Sissy for a long time...and kissed her on the cheek...

"I've missed these meetings." I said.

"I have too..It's good to see you friend....Kiss that baby for me and tell your wife I said Hi." she said smiling as I left...

IV-

I drove to the apartments where Fathead was staying...

He was alone...Staring out the window....Sipping a drink and listening to some old Motown hits...

"Hey Kev...You find anything?" he said.

"Yeah I found out some things..." I said and sat down....

He stared out the window...

"Fathead...how much did you know about this woman?" I asked...

He looked at me with a tear in his eye...This man, this gangster...This man who struck fear in the hearts of some at one time...

''What do you know Kevin?" he asked me..

(TO BE CONTINUED.....)