75K Worth

Once again...My wife,Olivia and Beverly were in a courtroom fighting vigourously to keep Richard Graves from being extradited to Philadelphia...And once again..He was charged with an additional murder in the town he was found in

Once again...Olivia and Bev not only argued his case before a judge ,but with ADA Nina Rios through tele conferencing..

"This is like deja vu mami and mamasita..." said ADA Nina Rios...

Olivia's brother, Jimmy West was in court, photographing the entire thing with a staff writer from his magazine.. He said of Nina Rios...


"Damn..She's cute..Is she married?" he asked..

''No,she's not...BUT YOU ARE!" said Olivia..giving her brother the side eye.

"Just askin Baby Sis...It's not like I'm trying to ask her out."he chuckled....

Olivia glared at him and smiled ,despite the fact she wanted to be angry with him...He could always make her smile...and he knew that!

Like me...he found it funny that Olivia ,Beverly and ADA Nina Rios were actually good friends outside of court, but this was a legal matter and they were going at it like enemies....It was weird to watch...The heated legal back and forth between the two.. and then...They would talk about what was going on in their personal life or shopping.

"She's my good friend...I love Nina.." said Olivia... "Just not right now.." she added..

And so the battle between two cities...Philadelphia and Bar Harbor,Maine began....Olivia and Beverly argued vigourously to get the federal interstate flight to avoid prosecution charges dropped.....But they were failing miserably with that....

 Next They argued that The District Attorney here in Bar Harbor had formally charged him with the more recent murder of Morris Graber...a lobster man, whose dis membered body had been found floating in the bay here..

 ADA Nina Rios said that Pennsylvania had a right to him....Olivia, Beverly and the Bar Harbor Assistant District Attorney, a young woman about Olivia's age, who seemed star struck that she was even in the same courtroom with Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West argued that the murder here was a more recent crime and one that they could try and prove while they weren't even sure in Pennsylvania if they even had a murder case, (since they didn't have a body or murder weapon or even proof that a murder in fact had even taken place...)

It was a weak argument, but the exact same argument used before in San Diego... And just like in San Diego a circuit court  Judge ruled in favor of Olivia ,Bev and the Assistant District Attorney...partially....They said that after the trial here....Mr. Graves would be returned to Philadelphia to face murder charges there promptly...

Partial victory for both sides...Again...

Nina smirked...

"You win again Olivia...but not for long...He's a serial killer...You'll see...and if you manage to free him yet again...We get him, just like before and this time..He'll be held with no bail.."said Nina.

 "I know.."said Olivia...Even she realized she hadn't done nearly as good as she had in San Diego...

"He's no serial killer Nina...He was acquitted of the murder in San Diego..they actually got the guy who killed Barbara Green...He was a serial killer...And I have confidence I'll clear him of this murder."said Olivia..

"You have a lot of faith in him mami...We will see."said Nina Rios.

Richard Graves appeared in court a completely different man...He had gotten a haircut, had shaved ,had showered and had on an expensive suit ,expensive shoes and was wearing a very fresh fragrance...He looked like the millionaire mogul he used to be ...a far cry from the man in drag that was arrested a few weeks ago..

 He smiled at Olivia and Beverly...

"You girls are my saviors...I don't know what I'd do without you."He said.

"You're in very hot water Richie...There is the matter of this murder trial....You'd better tell us everything Richie and don't leave anything out."said Beverly...

II-

Nelson and I was at the same at a bar on the wharf  with Detective Clint Mcdonald.....talking to Morris Graber's widow...an attractive and shapely blonde named Helen, who looked too young and way too attractive for the deceased....I had seen photos of him before he was dismembered and believe me...Dismemberment was an improvement!

''Let me do the talking Donnie Ray...These boys can get pretty rough in here.." he said.

I smiled...I didn't say anything...This wasn't my first rodeo....Nelson followed behind me..He didn't look afraid..In fact..He looked at home...

"Hey guys."said Detective Clint McDonald...''Any of you know this gal, Helen Graber..?" he asked..

A big tough looking guy walked over to the three of us...

''Who wants to know.?" he asked..

"If you don't know her sport...you don't need to be here...So go suck on some fish or something."I said.

Nelson laughed...

He looked at him...

"You find something funny pal?" he asked..

Nelson didn't flinch...

"Yeah...I find you funny..."he said..

''Didn't I tell you to go suck on some fish?" I asked.

"YEAH? Well suck on this?" he said and swung a roundhouse punch that I ducked..I hit him in his stomach and he folded like a tent and fell to the ground...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuff...."he moaned....he was out of shape and in no mood to continue fighting..He wisely stayed on the ground..

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmph.."he moaned....

The shapely and attractive blonde just shook her head in disgust....

"Now...Do you know Helen Graber or not?" I asked.

He winced in pain...

"She's over there..."he moaned..

"Come again? You took the bass out of your voice?" I said..

"Over there man."he pointed..

"Thank you."I said.

"What part of let me do the talkin did you not understand?" said Detective Mcdonald...

"You know where she is now don't you?" I replied...

He laughed his head off and slapped his thigh....

"Come on...I like you guys ." he said as we stepped over the tough guy,who was still on the floor..

Helen Graber smiled..

"You gonna buy me a drink?"she asked..

''Why would I do that?" asked Detective Mcdonald...now flashing his badge....

''If You want me to keep talking to you, you will." she said.

"How bout if I take you down to the station ..Will you talk then?" he said..

"Oh alright, alright..What do you want.? I see what you done to Basil..He's just getting up." she said...

He was just getting up and straightening out his clothes...A few people snickered...He stomped his foot and stormed out of the bar..

"When is the last time you saw your estranged husband?"he asked..

"The day he was last seen...Last week..I went to that rooming house he was living in...Next door to that ugly woman...Who we now know is a man, who probably killed him."she said.

''Was this uh ugly woman in his room?" I asked.

"Not that day...but she or he or whatever was over there playing cards with him every time I went to  visit...A regular pain in the ass....Funny thing...He died ,never knowing she was a he...hahahahahahahahahaha,poor dumb bastard.." she said.

"How long did you stay?" I asked..

"Not long...a few minutes and I was gone...He told me he was goin out on the boats in the morning and he needed his rest...That was around 9:00 pm..I left..I took a taxi and that was the last time I seen him."she said.

''If you guys were broke up, why did you visit so much?" asked Nelson..

''We were trying to get back together...We were talking about it?" she said.

"Had nothing to do with the 75K lotto winnings he had huh?" asked Nelson..

"Noooo..He ran through that dough...He didn't have no money."she said.

III-

Olivia and Beverly were hearing a slightly different story from Richard Graves...

"Livy...Morris had a beautiful wife...She looked too good and too young to be running around with Morris....They were seperated..Morris had left and was living in the rooming house next door to me.He thought I was a woman,so he used to buy groceries for me...He said she was cheating on him with some loser that worked at the butcher shop. Guy named Basil Jackson."he said.

"Tryin to hit on you huh?" said Beverly...

"Yeah...he had uh hit the lotto right after he left his wife...Won 75K...He was always carrying a lot of cash....I told him he should put that money up...Like in a bank account...I didn't want to tell him too much because he might wonder how I knew so much about accounts...and discover who I really was or get somebody to discovering it..."said Richard.

''So his wife knew he had recently hit the lotto?" asked Olivia...

"Yeah she knew...Everybody knew...Soon as she found out ,she started coming around being nice to him...Trying to get him to move back in...I saw through her game right away.."said Richie...

''Was there anybody else in the wife's life? Another man perhaps?"asked Beverly..

''Sure was...She was seeing some young guy named Basil...I only saw him once...Big Burly dude, hangs out along the wharf...Works in the meat packing factory."said Richie.

''So they both knew he hit the lotto for 75K?"asked Beverly...

''Oh yeah...he was always flashin his cash...Kept it in his bedroom in a bag ,under his bed cushion.A real kook! I mean who does that in this day and age? And why would I need to kill him?..Certainly not for his money...What is 75K to me?  I can blow that in one weekend in Vegas.."said Richie.

"I saw the case file....There was no mention of any money being found in his room." said Olivia.

''Well I suspect..Whoever killed him, took that money...I didn't kill him...but when they come here and discovered I wasn't who I said I was and further more, Who I really am...It was easy for them to hang this on me..Especially since I lived next door to him.."said Richie.

''Richie...When did you see him last?" asked Beverly.

"The day he was last seen, last week..He bought me breakfast from the diner...We played cards in my room...Spades...I told him to take that money and put it in the bank for the last time..And he said he was gonna do it..Told me he had a bad feeling..."said Richie.

''Bad feeling about what?" asked Olivia...

"I don't know..He never did say.. He thought he was being watched and followed...Said he saw somebody outside the rooming house,snooping around..All I do know is I heard him and his wife having a rather loud argument that night..Very loud...and she left in a huff. Next morning...He didn't come over,which was weird..because he usually did..I never saw him again...I was just as surprised as the next guy when they found him all cut up in the bay.. a few days later. but I didn't kill him."said Richie.

''You know your fingerprints and DNA were found in that room?" said Beverly..

''Of course they were....I had been over there to play cards and drink bear and crack crabs...They ran my prints...that's how they discovered who I was...They never found no murder weapon..No hack saw blades in my room did they?" said Richie..

''You have a point...but they found $800 large in your briefcase..Talk about carrying cash."said Olivia.

''Well My situation was different..I was on the run...I was using cash because I didn't want to leave a paper trail..." he said.

''Smart" said Beverly.

IV-

At my urging...Detective Clint McDonald called in a forensics team from the near by town to go over the room in which Morris Graber last lived...We found the fingerprints of Richard Graves of course...His next door neighbor and the fingerprints of his wife and another set that were not identified..

They did a luminol test and found blood splatter everywhere....

"He was killed in this room for sure." I said.

''And cut up in this bath tub!!!....Look at all this blood the luminol is showing." said Nelson..

"Yeah but how did they get him out of here?" I asked.

''Whoever did this..must have done it at night..We gotta talk to everybody in this building and then some...Frankly ,I can use your help...I'm short of manpower..."said Detective McDonald..

''Any street cameras or Traffic Cameras?" asked Nelson.

''This aint Philly kid..We don't have that kind of apparatus here...Not everyday we get this kind of crime and capture an FBI Top 10 fugitive...But it looks like we got 75K worth of a motive here..It could be someone else..You've sold me on that." said Detective McDonald.

"You do have Traffic Cams and ATM machines...Let's use what we got and see if they show up anything."I said.

"I'll put a team on this..It may take a few days." said Detective McDonald.."

''Good enough." I said.

V-

That night in our room...Olivia and I compared notes while lying across the bed...

''So there is little or no physical evidence other than Richie's fingerprints being in Mr.Graber's room...He said they were friends and they often visited each other to play cards and have a beer right?"said Olivia.

''Right and Graber's prints were found in Richie's room...We know that the murder occurred in Grabers room and that it was pretty brutal...We found blood all over the place after a luminol test...Which they didn't do, because whoever killed him thought they had cleaned up thoroughly...."I said.

"Then there is the motive...The wife and her boyfriend were interested in that 75K payoff money he got when he hit the local lotto...Richie said she started coming around  again,begging him to come back home and even having sex with him occassionally...but he was still not going to come back to her.."said Olivia..

''Did he know about the boyfriend?? Basil???"I asked..

''Yeah...that's why he left...That's why they split up..." said Olivia..

"How many people knew he had all of this money?" I asked..

''Everybody...Richie said that he flashed it all the time and that he bought everybody drinks at the bar..all the time...He said he tried to advise him to put it in a bank ,but as of the last time he was seen..He hadn't done that." said Olivia..

"No money has been found....They have a few traffic cams and one ATM cam nearby....The Case detective is looking at footage from the night Graber was last seen and we are waiting for a lab report of the cause of death.."I said.

''They charge a man with murder ...murder one and they haven't done just the simple things....My god...There is a whole pool of suspects that would have motive to kill him."said Olivia..

"True Olivia, but Richie being an FBI top ten fugitive and masquerading as a woman didn't help his case you know..''I said smiling and rubbing her sexy ,shapely legs...

"I know...I know...but we've got enough to mount a decent defense.....Tomorrow we pick the jury...Beverly is very good at reading people and picking good jurors...I am amazed at my little niece.."laughed Olivia...

She said thinking about Beverly.....

''Tomorrow I'm going to let her run the show."laughed Olivia..

Olivia was wearing that flimsy beige baby doll that I loved and matching beige panties with white lace around the waistband...I smiled at her and rolled her over on her back...I kissed her gently...

"Mmmmmm,I was wondering when you'd get around to this....You've been staring at me all night long..." she said and returned my kiss...

I leaned over and kissed Olivia passionately....Her soft hands massaged my growing erection....

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ,you feel soo good baby..Myyyy goodness.Ouuuuuu"she cooed..

''Damn girl, so do you..."I said..

I spread her legs....I entered her very slowly this time....She is good and wet and warm like an oven....I'm staring into her beautiful brown eyes and looking at that gorgeous honey brown and baby soft skin...We were face to face...She leaned up and kissed me...and I begin thrusting inside her ...Slowly at first and then just a little faster..I wanted this to last....

"Mmmmmmmmmmmm, here we go again Donnie Ray...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."she moaned in between kisses..

"Yeah...Don't you love it?" I said.

"I do...and I know you do...you're so good at it." laughed Olivia...

"Ohhhh my god..."I moaned...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....ouuuuuuuu husband...you are sooo goood."moaned Olivia as we continued kissing and making sweet love...

This bed squeaked and made a lot of noise...but there was nothing either of us could do about it now.

  Five hours seemed to evaporate like nothing...

Olivia 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...

"Ohhhhhhhh Donnie Ray...Ohhhh Donnie Ray.....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is soooooo gooood..."she moaned as we continued to make love....

"Ohhhhhhhhhh my god Olivia..."I moaned....

I don't know how long we lie there on the bed like that before she turned me over and positioned herself on top of me and began going up and down , up and down.....Her hair partially blocking her face....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Livy..." I moaned...as she held on tightly and began moving faster and harder..

"You like that?" she asked as she kissed me passionately...

I was speechless..

"The look on your face tells me that's a yes." she said.

"Yes....yessssssssssssssssss.."I moaned...

I pulled her to me and began kissing her passionately.....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Donnie Ray...this is beyond goood...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she cooed..in between wet ,sloppy kisses...

"Yessss...arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...it is..." I moaned as we continued....

It was another hour of sweet lovemaking before I came so hard that once again I was frightened it could be this good...

Olivia climaxed too and turned her head from side to side...Tears just flowing from her eyes...and sweat running down both of our bodies...

I laid between her legs with my head on her breasts....

She held me in her arms...and rubbed my nappy hair softly...She blew softly in my ear...

I drifted off to sleep....

I don't know how long I was asleep , but when I woke up ,Olivia was sitting on the side of the bed,wrapped in the sheets ,smiling at me...


I looked up...


''Did you get any sleep babes?" I asked.


"I did....I just woke up a little before you...  We have a punchers chance..For the first time...I feel good about all of this...Like we can make it,like we can win."said Olivia..

"We can win babes...We can win" I said and put my arms around her waist....squeezing her tight and kissing her neck...She giggled softly...

"Yeah...I'm feeling good"said Olivia, smiling.

As it turned out...we weren't the only ones feeling good...a floor below us... Beverly and Nelson were working things out...They were actually glad to be a floor down ,so no one could hear them...

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nelson!....ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she moaned as he slipped her panties down ......

He thrusted his tongue practically down her throat and while squeezing one breast with one  hand...With his other hand he pulled out a condom...She helped him tear open the wrapper....he slipped it on and lifted her up and positioned her on himself as he entered her and began thrusting away...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ohhhhh my god Nelson...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Put me down...Ouuuuu,Let's go in the bedroom.." she moaned...

He carried her into their bedroom...

"I could have walked silly, you didn't have to carry me.."she said.

"Tell your dad I do use protection."said Nelson...

"Oh hush up silly....I think he's warming to you."she said..as she deep throat kissed him...

She moaned and put her arms around Nelson's neck and drew him closer to her..She wrapped her legs around his waste and they began to move in a slow soft rhythm...She matched him thrust for thrust and even squeezed him...She was so soft...so moist and smelled so good...Nelson was losing his mind slowly.......He was moaning louder than she was..

Their bed was louder than ours...squeaking something crazy...The headboard was hitting the wall so hard a little of the paint was coming off..

Beverly and Nelson made sweet passionate and intense love for the next five hours...Beverly began to shake and gyrate and tears began to stream down her face ...

"It's sooooooooooooooo goooddd...Oh my godddddddddddddd Nelson it's soooooo gooood! I love you...I love you so muchhhhh Nelson....ohhhhh don't stoppp, don't stopp..." she screamed as they both climaxed in a crescendo of sweat!

"I LOVE YOU TOO BEV...LAWD jesussss.."he cried out as he came furiously......

Beverly smiled at him sweetly.....He looked at her...

''What's up? What you smiling about?" he asked..

''You and me!!!...This is the longest I've been in a relationship in a long time......We just might make it after all..."she said laughing...She kissed him passionately....

"I think we got a shot.."he joked, hugging her and kissing her cheek...

Beverly rubbed his bicep...and smiled...allowing her head to lean on his chest...Never had she felt so happy,so safe with a man.Nelson put his arms around her and held her like that until she drifted off into a peaceful sleep...

"I feel so good right now!" she said smiling...right before she drifted off..

(TO BE CONTINUED)