Changing Up The Game

Carlotta stepped into the door of our home....I softly closed the door and followed her into our bedroom...

She unbottoned her blouse ,revealing a black sheer bra...I smiled...She looked at me and managed a smile...

It had been a long frustrating day...

Sissy and I had been at several blistering Press Conferences explaining that we were doing all we could do to locate a sniper who had so far taken the lives of two women... We explained that we couldn't tell them anymore about the ongoing investigation...

Then we had meetings with the D.A. ,The Deputy of Operations and the Police Commissioner..We told him that we had Tactical assign as many men as they could to all of the empty buildings within a 20 block radius going in both directions and that we had a number of Plain Clothes cops walking in that direction looking for the slightest movemant..

 Jimmy interviewed the entire wedding party of both women...None of them knew the other girl's wedding party,went to the same schools or had any other connection..He also checked out the catering company of both women...No connection to either.

 Hop checked out the churches both weddings were supposed to occur at...In different parts of the city...He interviewed the staffs...No connection whatsoever...

While Sirena checked out the Jewelers and Wedding planners...No Connection....

Carlotta took another track...She found and interviewed previous boyfriends and lovers of both women...All of them alibied out, a few of them tried to hit on her!

 Tyriq checked out gunshops and ammo shops and talked to experts....His idea was that this guy was ex-military...and a sniper...

Sharon ,helped him with that...With the FBI database ,she was able to come up with 200 recently discharged snipers from the Marines,Army, Navy and Air Force,living in our area...He had eliminated 15 so far...He had his work cut out for him.

Hazel had determined that both girls were killed with the same type of bullet,coming from the same type of gun...an M-16.

And the phone number...The phone number Carlotta was called from was from an untraceable burner phone....and the number had been rerouted through the Ukraine....This guy was special forces and he was good...He knew how to cover up his tracks.

II-

"You are staring at me papi..that is so rude."said Carlotta....Fully aware that her black sheer bra was exposed and her blouse was open and I liked what I saw...

I pulled her toward me...

"I know you're probably not in the mood with all this going on....but could I just kiss you?" I said and kissed her slowly and softly...

"Who said I wasn't in the mood?" she asked me and rubbed her soft fingers across my lips and returned my soft kiss...

I rubbed her breasts...She didn't move my hands....I opened her blouse fully and kissed the tips of her breasts through her bra.....She continued kissing me passionately....and moaning..Her hands ran across the crotch area of my trousers...She felt how hard I was..

"Ouuuuuuu..Papi...why didn't you tell me?"she said.


''I didn't think you would...you would be in the mood with all that's been going on.." I said..

"All you ever have to do is ask...It's not like I'm going to bite your head off..I'm your wifey now.."she said smiling..

  I  lifted her blouse  and helped her out of it......She had on a Black sheer lace bra....I slipped her mini dress over her head..she was wearing Black sheer panties...We both devoured each other's lips passionately right in the doorway of our bedroom.....

It wasn't long before my shirt and tie and suit jacket were on the floor and Carlotta had stepped out of her heels.

 Carlotta unzippered my trousers and allowed them to drop to the floor...

"Oh my goodness...Ay yi yi...Look at youuuu" she said, eyeing my massive penis.."Ouuuuuuuuu.." she moaned...

Within minutes...we were kissing in the middle of the floor ,naked......

  I entered Carlotta...slowly, very slowly....I can't believe how many times I used to dream about doing this back when I first met her, but didn't really know her yet..and now years later..I'm married to her and doing this quite a bit..

 I took my time and entered her and went in and eased out ,slowly, savoring her wetness and her warmness like a diner savors a fine steak...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."moaned Carlotta as we finally
began to make sweet love in our bed...

She wrapped her legs around my waist ,so I could take all of her...and I didn't disapoint...

 The bed was soon rocking back and forth furiously...the headboard softly slamming against the wall...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY goddddddddddddddddddddddd!" I  moaned...


"Ouuuuu papi...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." she moaned..

  Carlotta's kisses were soft ...Her lips were like butter...

Three hours turned to five and we were still going at it..I was making up for all of our lost time....It had been three days since we'd last made love...right before the shootings started..

 Just thinking about all of this made me come so hard...I thought I was dying...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."moaned Carlotta as I came furiously and my body shook....She had climaxed at least four times during the past five hours....she told me...

We lie drenched in each other's sweat trying to catch our breath...

"Oh my god."I sighed...

"You've got to stop that!...Making me cum so much papi..." she laughed.....

Then her phone began to vibrate...It was on the floor...I picked it up...

"Answer that for me papi." she said.

"Hello!" I said.

"Who-Who-Who is this?  PUT CARLOTTA ON THE PHONE...NOWWWWWWWWWW!" he said...He was crying....

I whispered to her..

"It's him....The FBI has cloned your phone...They can trace it to this guy...Keep him talking.."I said.

Carlotta had thrown on a sheer t-shirt and was sitting up talking to the man...

I was watching her intently and nibbling on her neck...She giggled and pushed me away....

"Hello." she said.

"Carlotta...I was  almost caught today....You have cops everywhere..."he said throughout sobs...

"So give yourself up...It's only a matter of time before we catch you.." she said.

"I want to ,but I cannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn't, arrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...lawdd..." he wailed..

"You've got to stop crying...You're a grown ass man..not a baby boy...Now Stop crying..."she said..

"Carlotta....I changed up my game...I dropped another....I had to do ittttttttttttttttttt....arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I'm tired of killing......But after what she did to me...I have to do this...."he moaned...

"Who did what to you? Did some girl hurt you? Tell me about it..." said Carlotta...

"She was the girl of my dreams...I wanted her sooooooo bad...I asked her to marry me and....."

"Yes...Tell me..."asked Carlotta...

"You're tracing this call aren't youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?" he wailed..

"No No.."said Carlotta...

"I've got to go..."he said...

A gunshot was heard...then screams and then the call ended...

Carlotta looked at me...

"Oh No!!!!...He's done it again!" she said in horror!

III-

It was daybreak!  Commuters were on their way to work....Carlotta and I rushed to the scene of the latest victim....

Once again..I saw the familiar sights....The crime scene tape and policemen mulling around and a crowd of bystanders.....

Beyond the tape...I saw the body of a very young and attractive white woman sprawled in the street...her lifeless eyes staring emptily into the morning sun....a gunshot wound in her chest, near her heart..a cup of coffee she must have been holding spilled out on the sidewalk...

I saw Detectives Edwin"Duke" Baylor and Angela Belton-Barlow talking to her distraught girlfriend..an attractive African-American woman...

"So you two had just left the coffee shop, is that right?" asked Sissy...

"Yes...We come here every morning on our way to work...We went and got tumblers of Hot Coffee's...We were talking...She had just gotten engaged....We were just talking and then this guy...He was white, mid thirties... about six feet even..Scraggly beard....wearing a hoodie...Walked past us...He was on his phone...We barely noticed him and I heard a pop...I saw him holster his gun and he kept walking...that way ."she said and pointed..

"You ever see this guy before?? Was he hanging around your job?" asked Angie.

"No...I teach at Community College...My friend Janine manages a Book store a few blocks from here...We were just walking and talking and laughing...We stopped for the light at the corner and the next thing I know, she tossed her cup of coffee up in the air and fell to the ground...and he ,and just walked away...He had his phone in one hand and his gun in the other."said the woman who was still crying profusely and shaking...

Angie put her arms around her and hugged her....

Hazel was examining the body ..She looked at Carlotta and said...

"If this is your guy....He is changing up...This was at close range....Right through her heart..She died instantly...

"And he vanished into the crowd." said Carlotta...

''A uniform found this shell casing...It's from a Sig Sauer...Military issue...This was up close and personal...Not like yours Top and not like Sirena and Hop's...You sure this is the same guy?" asked Duke.

"He was talking to me on the phone...I heard it when it happened...Just like the other two..He was crying like a baby.."said Carlotta..

''We got a trace on your phone...Maybe we can get him this time.." said Angie..

"Don't count on that!" came the voice of  Lt. Sissy Van Buren, who was just showing up...She had the smartphone in her hands...She was wearing latex gloves...

"I got here as soon as I could...A uniform and I found this phone in the trash, about three blocks away...I checked it for last calls....It was your number Chica...He called you and dropped the phone in the trash.."said Sissy.

"But look at this area...There are cameras all over this place...He had to be seen...We got him now!"I said.

"Maybe...she said he was wearing a hoodie...Even if we do get him..Will we get his face?" asked Angie...

''We won't...He's smarter than that..The only way to get him is to anticipate his next move and beat him to it...Do something to make him come out..Make him overplay his hand."said Carlotta.

 Sissy,Angie and Duke looked at each other and smiled and then looked at Carlotta...

"That sounds like something out of Lt. Cantrell's playbook...."said Sissy beaming at her little protoge'

"It sure does...He taught Me,Duke and Rico that when we were young detectives.."said Angie, who hugged Carlotta and kissed her on the cheek..."I love this girl Sissy."she said with a smile..

"He taught me that."laughed Sissy..

''Rico taught me and Jimmy that when we were young detectives."said Carlotta...

"And Cantrell taught Rico that..So it is from the same playbook...But what do you propose we do Top?" asked Duke.

"Don't get mad at me...but I'm going to take a page out of Lt. Tragg's playbook... I'm going to call a press conference....make a dramatic plea for the killer to contact me.....put him on Front street...up until now, the media doesn't know that he's been calling me..Tomorrow they will...He changed his game ,now I'm changing mine."said Carlotta.

"Normally I wouldn't be about anything with Lt. Tragg's name on it."said Duke.."But it's the only play we got.."said Duke.

(TO BE CONTINUED)