Heat Of The Day

It was a beautiful balmy summer morning...The three of us checked into a hotel...Josie Boyd, our office manager had booked us into a nice small hotel, not too far from the courthouse in the Queens where the hearings would most likely be...As hotel rooms went it was nice...but nowhere near the kind we had in Punta Canta...San Francisco,San Diego,London,Paris, Miami and other places our cases had taken us...

Both Olivia and Beverly had Face timed her last night and Olivia had told her she could go home at noon today and close the office up since nothing was pending..

 "You guys want to go and get breakfast first?" asked Olivia..

''What? Huh?"I remarked...

"Breakfast Donnie Ray...Breakfast.."said Olivia softly, blushing...I was staring at her salaciously..She looked especially good this morning...It was not lost on her...and she was blushing like a shy school girl getting her first bit of attention from a guy...

"I know I stare at you a lot Livy...but aren't you used to guys staring at you the way I do and saying things to you even?" I asked.

"Yeah,I am...but nobody has made me blush like you do in a long time." she said.

"Really? Interesting...So nobody has kissed you like I'm about to in a long time either." I said and pulled her to me....

She giggled...

''Donnie Ray...you're going to get my lipstick all over you...come on now" she said as she yielded to my  soft kiss...We kissed passionately for a long time until we heard the knock on the door..It was Beverly...

We eased out of our embrace and Olivia began applying her lipstick again...

Even seeing Beverly made me do a double take..She was wearing a beautiful form fitting Black dress that accentuated all of her lovely curves...She and her aunt were both beautiful women....

"I don't know that it's right for this man to have all this temptation....He's locked up.....I live with you two and sometimes I can't deal with it."I said.

"SOMETIMES?" They both said in unison and laughed...

Beverly took her thumb and wiped Olivia's lipstick off my lips and my cheek...She smiled and shook her head..

"You just loveeee my Auntay don't you?" she said..

I smiled sheepishly...Olivia blushed again...

"He's supposed to." she joked and smiled at me...

II-

We found a local diner and had breakfast....The girls both had Western Omelets,hash browns and bacon, and coffee... while I had my eggs scrambled light with hash browns, bacon, toast and coffee..

We caught a cab to the local jail...

Olivia requested and got a private interview room...It was certainly cleaner and a lot nicer than some of the types of rooms I had seen in New Orleans when I was a Detective...

Barry Fontaine was walked into the room shortly after...He was six feet, two inches...Brown skinned and heavily muscled...He didn't look like what I had pictured at all...Hard to believe this man was an Attorney...He looked as if he might have played football..

He took one look at Olivia and swooned..

"My goodness gracious...You are gorgeous as well as brilliant!!!...I've seen you on the news after one of your big cases...and now I finally meet you in the flesh...It is a pleasure .You know I actually met you once  years ago when I was dating your niece..You probably don't remember..." he said in that deep sexy voice of his...

Olivia was wrong..He hadn't forgotten that they had actually met once years ago when he was dating Beverly.

I could tell that my wife was impressed with him too..And surprised that Barry Fontaine was the same age as her...

"I've seen you on television too...Your uh late night commercials... You were in law school with my niece ?? Yet according to your biography should have been in Law school with me." she said smiling..

"I am a bit of a late bloomer..I attended Drexel as you know...I graduated with an engineering degree that I've never used...and then I played Semi -Pro Football for years with a number of teams,hoping to get that big break.....Well I got it all right..just not the break I wanted with the Eagles or the Jets.....Anyway...I re-invented myself..Went to law school...at Penn and got my JD..."he said and then he saw Beverly standing in the doorway....His eyes lit up...

"Hi Barry."she said quietly....

"Oh My God...Beverly?? Beverly West?? I still can't believe  she's your niece Olivia??  You can't be but a few years older than her ...You two look like sisters." he said looking at both women...

"We get that a lot.. I'm nine years older than her...Her father is my older brother..." said Olivia...

"Big Jimmy West? That's your Older Brother?? I knew him...Well I knew of him...We never actually talked...Well I'll be damned...And  both of you are lawyers..."he said.

"And this is Mr. Donnie Ray Alexander....My Husband...He's our firm's investigator..."said Olivia..

''Pleased to meet you ,though not under these circumstances...I'm sure."I said shaking his hand.

"You're a lucky man... A damned lucky man to be married to a fine woman like Olivia." he said laughing and shaking my hand.....Then he turned his attention to Beverly...

"My goodness...Lawd Jesus,,,It's in the genes.....Look at you!!!...I can't believe it's possible for you to be even more voluptuous and beautiful than you were when I knew you in school...Lawd Jesus..look at you."he said, marveling at Beverly's curves and legs...

Beverly was not her usual cool as a cucumber, wise cracking self ,she was about to melt, I thought looking at her...She was blushing something crazy....

"How you been Bev?" he asked..

"I-I-I've been fine Barry..."she said...

"Yes..Lawd...I can see that." he whispered to her under his breath....

Beverly was blushing so hard, she appeared to be sweating..

"I-I-I worked with my aunt as a public defender for a few years and then joined her in private practice."she said changing the subject.....

 "You look sensational...and you and your auntie have both done well for yourself...You know..I knew your cousin,Kayla Bennett...We both worked at the same law firm here in New York for awhile before I started my firm..Then she got an incredible offer in Atlanta and moved there...How is she doing..?" he said almost as if he could see her..I suspected this guy had either thought about or at least tried to put the moves to young Kayla too.

"Oh Kayla is doing good..She was just up here to see us recently.." said Beverly..

"Damn..That's good..Good to know everybody is doing good..Whole family of good lookin women...lawd!"he said.

This guy was real seductive...I certainly understood how he had so many women...He had a soft but deep ,seductive voice..and he knew how to throw a compliment...

Now that we had all caught up there was an uncomfortable silence between all of us and we sat down at the table and began to get down to cases..

 III-

"You are charged with capital murder....The murder of the Assistant District Attorney ,Yolanda Lockett...and I can't lie to you...A conviction could get you the death penalty..."said Olivia..

"Not to mention the loss of my law license." he said laughing....

Then he got serious..."Look,I know this looks bad..very bad..but I didn't kill Yolanda... We were...We were ,well...intimate..."he said.

''She was your girlfriend?" I asked.

I could tell he felt uncomfortable talking about this in front of Beverly....

"Uhhhh no...I wouldn't say that...We were uh friends with benefits....for want of a better term.." he said.

Olivia and I looked at Beverly ,who said nothing...Surprisingly....

"Look...I was out drinking with ADA Lockett that night...She occassionally gave me information on matters concerning some of my cases...Not all the time, but occassionally...We were at this bar here in Long Island City drinking...talking and all I remember is next thing I know..I'm waking up...I'm nude..I'm on the floor in some seedy hotel room...No idea how I got there...How we got there..Londie is lying across the bed,nude with a nice neat hole in her head from my gun...blood just gushing down the sheets...and the gun ,my gun is lying next to me on the floor...I know I didn't take her there...Neither she nor I would have ever of gone to such a sleazy place as that!" he said.

''You don't know how you got to the room or anything?"asked Olivia.

"I don't have the foggiest idea..Last thing I remember...Londie and I were having a friendly glass of wine..and then lights out...I wake up, she's dead and I'm butt naked on the floor lying next to my gun...I had just managed to get my boxers on when the police came crashing throught the door with guns drawn.." he said.

"How'd they know you two were there?" asked Olivia...

"The case detective told me they got an anonymous tip....The so called hotel we were in wasn't even legit..It had been closed for a month...The electric was off....Now what would I look like taking a woman to a place like that?" he said.

''You know this is a fantastic story Mr. Fontaine." I said.

"Believe me...I wouldn't believe it myself if someone told it to me...but it's the truth...I didn't kill her."he said.

''Why were you carrying a gun that night?"asked Beverly, finally speaking...

"I got robbed a month or two ago on the street...beat up pretty badly....I'm certain it has to do with a case I was working...I'm representing a young woman who was injured in a car accident...She was suing this small company,Delorean Motors for millions...This was the case that might have put me in the big times...Some guys beat me up and stole my briefcase...That's all...I guess they thought it had some notes concerning the case in it...It didn't..After that ,I got a license to carry and started packing."

''Did you normally drink at this bar?"asked Olivia..

"I didn't...but she did...Especially when she wanted to talk in private and not be seen by a lot of people...It's a real bust out joint.I'd only been in there once before." he said.

"I need the name of the bar...your client and the address of the company you were suing.."I said.

"Regina will get all of that to you." he said.

"I'm going to do all I can for you Barry, but I can't promise you anything...This is going to be an uphill battle."said Olivia..

''I know...but thanks for even taking this case...I wasn't going to risk being repped by some young, green public defender and winding up on death row...uh....no offense.."he said.

"None taken...I haven't been a public defender  for years"said Olivia ,smiling wryly....

He looked at me...

"Your wife has the sexiest smile."he said.

"Among other things...Yes..I know..Sit tight man...We are going to see what we can do for you."I said.

"Thank you." he said..He called Beverly over to him and whispered in her ear..

''Yes Barry?" she said.

''When you come back tomorrow...Wear something uh open...so I can see your breasts..Wear a sexy bra.. ...I can't take my eyes off of you in that sexy,tight black dress you got on...I'm so turned on right now..I can't stand up...Damn girl you're so sexy...ummmmmm.." he whispered...

Beverly blushed like I'd never seen her blush before...

"Uh...Uh...Thank you, I guess.."she said...

"No thank you...for being so damn sexy."he said...

She remembered a time ,when she was younger...how the sound of this man's voice would make her moist and seemingly make her clothes just fall off....

She remembered never being able to say no to him when he wanted sex...and how she experienced her very first orgasms with him....

After all these years...This man was making her feel the same way all over again.

"Damn girl..I sure miss you... Please wear a sexy lacy bra tomorrow...Leave your top open so I can see the outline." he said to her...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhh..myyy.... okay!" she said again...blushing and sweating...

 She also thought about how self centered he could be...how demanding and childish he could be also and how she had felt so relieved and liberated when she finally broke up with him too...

That put everything else in perspective for her... She slowly got her composure..

''Barry, we should just uh concentrate on your case." she said.

"I'll try, but right now,I'm concentrating on you baby and I like what I'm seeing..."he said and kissed her on the cheek...

Beverly smiled weakly and openly blushed....She even looked like she was sweating...

We watched as the guard handcuffed him and walked him away...

IV-

We met Attorney Regina Wesley on the street...

"How is he?" she asked.

''He's in good spirits, considering.." said Olivia..

"You think you can get him off?" she asked..She was right to the point..

''Well ,that is a rather fantastic story he's told us...but we like challenges." I said trying to smile..

''Well I'm not a big time high fallutin lawyer like you guys...but if you don't mind..I'd like to assist you."she said.

"I think that's great...We always welcome help."said Beverly....

"You okay Beverly? You look like you're sweating..?"said Regina to Beverly..

"Oh No...It's just the uh heat of the day."said Beverly...

Both Olivia and I gave her the serious side eye and smiled to ourselves...Heat of the day indeed, I thought to myself!!!


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