Dry Heat

Carlotta was on the phone in our room talking on her cell phone...I couldn't tell if it was to Jimmy or Tyriq...I didn't care...I was just marveling her...She had on a matching white and pink bra and panty set that I had never seen before and an aqua nightie that she was wearing over it...that came just below her hips...I was mesmerized....

"Okay...we'll get on it tomorrow..First thing in the morning." she said.

A few days had passed and our investigations had heated up....

Despite his grandstanding and his Press Conferences...Lt. Tragg had actually been helpful to us..

When he and his men intercepted that shipment of heroin and cocaine...They unadvertedly kicked over a hornets nest with deadly repercussions..Millions of dollars had been paid upfront for those drugs by not only independent crews in Philly and Camden ,but major playas in Deleware and Baltimore...All of that money had to be refunded and people had to look for other suppliers and connects...

The word on the streets was that Philly was dry!  He had done good and I suppose he deserved to toot his own horn....Which of course he did...He was seen as a hero and was back in the Deputy of Operations good graces...

Despite all that...We had a horrific mass murder of five men to contend with....Two of them were Philadelphia Policemen...good police...The Mayor ,The Deputy of Operations and The Commissioner wanted action fast....

There was no better detectives to put on this than Edwin"Duke"Baylor and Angela Belton-Barlow...
They were relentless...With Plain clothes cops from Vice and Narcotics and uniformed officers they patrolled all of Penns Landing relentlessly searching for anybody who had seen anything out of the ordinary that night...

They looked at hours of footage of Street Cams, ATM Cams and Traffic Cams...looking for anything that might lead them to their killer...They rattled the chains of all of their informants...No one knew or at least no one was going to talk about anything concerning Maclean Heath....Such was his fearsome reputation...

 Carlotta, Tyriq and Jimmy had been working just as hard on the murder of Drug figure ,Lonnie Denton....

She put her phone down and stared at me...

''What are you  staring at?" she asked with a sexy smirk on her face...

''You."I said.

''You know ,staring is rude papi..." she said smiling salaciously...

"Then come over here and get in this bed and I'll stop staring." I said....

She smiled and walked over to the bed....I put my arms around her and pulled her to me...

We kissed passionately.....

"You've got on too much clothing...Take this off.." I joked...

"Papi,it's cold....It's cold in here.."she said in between kisses...

"That's what I'm here for...to make you warm.."I said smiling...

Carlotta looked down at me...I was as hard as a tree trunk, a fact that wasn't lost on Carlotta...

"Oh My Goddd...Why do I have to be so damn hot?" she jokingly mused...."Getting you so excited like this?" she said as she gently stroked me....

"I knowww, right?" I laughed as I slipped her nightie off of her and unhooked her bra...She slowly slipped out of her panties and straddled me on the bed, easing down on me slowly and savoring it...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuu papi...yessssssssssssssssss..."she cooed...as she slowly moved up and down....

I was losing my mind....

She moaned softly as the massive bed began to squeak and slam against the wall...

''Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...""Ohhh papi, give it to meeeeee....ummmmmmph..."

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Carlotta...Carlotta......ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh..."

"Papi...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Aye mios dios"she moaned.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gooooddddddd lawdd it's soooo goood...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is soo good girl...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweeeeet jesusssssssssss you are so good in the bedddddddddd...arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."I cried ...out!!"Morrre...Morreee....morrre...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..

"Papi..ouuuuuu..Papi....OHHHHHHH. Papi!"she wailed...

We made love  for over five hours...I was so hungry for Carlotta that I couldn't get enough....

 Carlotta moaned and put her arms around my neck and drew me closer to her..I kissed her neck, between her breasts, her cheeks....She continued to kiss my lips and my ears and my chest...

I came so hard, I actually got frightened.... Carlotta began to climax....Her body shook,tears flowed down her face and she had the most serene look I'd ever seen in my life.....

"I LOVE YOU SO MUCH PAPI" she said as she collapsed on my chest....

I kissed her....

"I love you too Carlotta...You should wear this set more often and I'll really show you how much."I joked...

She playfully slapped my shoulder...

"Silly goose...I'm serious...."she said..

"I'm serious too....about you.."I said kissing her once again...

II- 

 The next morning... Sissy, Lt. Sissy Van Buren called an update meeting in the conference room of our "Safehouse" the Apartment complex -Front where we were operating with our task force...

We had guys from Narcotics and Vice working with us as well as DEA Agents and FBI agents...All had rooms in the complex and all were working this case hard...

Both Sissy and I needed something to take to the bosses downtown...Two policemen had been murdered...We were under pressure to bring their killer to justice..,.A very tall order considering our suspect was a legend...a ghost who had operated with impunity for years...Longer than Sissy's young detectives had been on the force...

Jimmy was the first one up...

"I checked Denton's financials....He was funneling huge amounts of cash into three shell accounts in the Caymen Islands...As soon as we got up on them...They were shut down...closed...You have to wonder what a piker like him is suddenly doing with that kind of cash...I checked his credit cards and bank accounts and it was the same thing...A huge amount of cash flow at the beginning of the month,then transfers into these dummy accounts." he said.

"I checked his comings and goings in his condo and they even have a camera that registers everything...In the past 48 hours he made a flurry of calls to a Brooklyn Decker of New York City...and a London Cummings.He also called my wife's victim...Alvin"Superfly.."  Mayfield...I have the two of them on tape ,meeting the day that Denton disapeared...

"If you look at the video...both men look frightened about something...There is London Cummings, talking to Denton and both leaving the building...Denton has a small bag packed with him...Like he was leaving for a short period..Yet we found no bag with him."said Tyriq..

"We did find his car...We dusted it for prints and DNA...we found nothing...but we may have gotten lucky...I got a call last night from one of the tech guys....We caught a Traffic cam video of a car leaving the scene of the crime....We found the car and like the other one,it was clean of prints and DNA and was reported stolen.....But look who is in the front seat..Look who's driving?" said Carlotta.

"I'll be damned....Maclean Heath!!! He finally slipped up...That's him almost minutes after the murder...on the highway in a stolen car...I think we got him.."said Sissy.

"That's not a whole lot" said FBI Deputy SAC, Sharon Hopkins..."As a lawyer,I'm just saying...but it's something." she added...

"Me and Ang have Penns Landing and the port on lock .We have Plain clothes cops from Vice and Narcotics and uniformed officers  all over Penns Landing relentlessly searching for anybody who had seen anything out of the ordinary that night..."said Duke.

"We've been looking at hours of footage of Street Cams, ATM Cams and Traffic Cams...looking for anything that might lead them to their killer...We've rattled the chains of all of our informants...No one knew or at least no one was going to talk about anything concerning Maclean Heath..but we have found out something..This London Cummings...His name comes up more than once...I remember him..He used to control all of the drug traffic in Strawberry Mansion and beyond...Then the Diaz Brothers and Minolo Sennterro...kind of squeezed him out...Not a peep out of him for years...and now his name keeps coming up as a major player.."said Angie..

"I remember London Cummings....I suspect...He's swimming in deeper waters with bigger fish right now.."said Carlotta.

"Right about that Top...I wonder if he's the new Boss player and if Maclean Heath is in his employ?" mused Duke.

"As for Alvin Mayfield, my vic...Hop and I talked to mutual associates of both...These guys had the city on lock...Between the two of them, they were supplying the entire city with a new grade of Heroin that was a favorite of all...People were paying top dollar for it..So much so that they were paying in advance..."said Sirena..

"But I know these two guys...From back in the day...They owned a lot of real estate....had corners...but they weren't big time like this...I can't believe either of these guys is the boss...No,they're working for somebody...Maybe this London Cummings...At any rate...We caught a shadowy photo of a man in a dark trench coat with a mask walking away from a corner meeting with Mayfield, moments after he was discovered dead..Can't say that that is Mac Heath...but it's a guy who is the same height and build."said Hop..

"But he's wearing a mask...and that big bulky coat...You guys don't have much."said Sharon..

"Still, you have enough that I can get a warrant for his residences...He's listed at three different ones..."I said.

"Chica,Rico and Jimmy, go pick him up....Take him downtown...Sirena...You and Hop and Hazel, take a team and check his residences...Maybe we'll get lucky.."said Sissy..who smiled...

"WOW! Maybe we just got lucky with this." she said.

Eddie C. walked up behind Sissy as everybody cleared out and put his arms around his new wife's waist...

"Or maybe I can get uh lucky with you.."he said...

"Ouuuuuuuuu.."moaned Sissy who could feel his hard erection rubbing up against her...She began to sweat a little...

"I have to go to a meeting baby...and then when I get home...I'll make you the luckiest man alive.."she whispered softly...

"I already am the luckiest man alive..."he laughed and kissed her passionately......

''Awwwwww." said Sissy as she kissed him again.


III-

Maclean Heath did not look at all like I suspected...First of all,I thought he was white....With a name like Maclean Heath,I just knew he was...He was Black...a slight , well dressed man with a bald head and an earing in his left ear...

Didn't look at all like the mass killer he was alleged to be... Carlotta, Tyriq, Jimmy and five shotgun toting policemen raided all three of his listed residences...He wasn't at any..Two were completely empty as if he'd never been there...and the third looked as if he'd just left...

They walked up on him coming out of a bar....He was very surprised...but offered no resistance...

He sat quietly in the fishbowl as Carlotta and Tyriq walked in....Both had a stack of files and both plopped them down loudly on the table..He looked at them both and laughed..

Jimmy offered him a cigarette or a cigar...He declined..

"You want some coffee?? Soda??"" asked Jimmy...

Again he declined...

"So which one of you is good cop?  Let me guess...You white boy? You look like the youngest of the trio." he said..

"Well actually...She is the youngest."Jimmy said ,pointing to Carlotta..

He looked at her and smiled..

 "She's certainly sexy cop...Heh,Heh,Heh..."he laughed...

"Know what these are Mackie?   They're files....Unsolved murders....And these are just the ones you're a suspect in here in Philadelphia...God Knows how many others there are elsewhere...I got seven recent unsolved murders.....Two were cops...."said Tyriq..

"Sorry to hear that.."said Maclean Heath.

"These other murders are mostly of criminals...people in the drug game...We have to try and solve those too, but when you kill one of us...We really take that personally.."said Carlotta..

"I see you're married...I'd really like to take you back to my loft and screw your brains out chica...You turn me on!"he said non-chalantly....

Jimmy tossed a glossy of him driving a car down on the table and then a crime scene photo of the murdered Lonnie Denton.

"That's you driving a car we found days later and reported stolen ,leaving the scene of this murder."said Jimmy...

"Uh Huh...You sure that's me?  It looks kind of grainy...Could be anybody, you know?..Do you have a photo of me committing murder?  And uh when you found this car...Was my prints or DNA in the car??"he asked.."And what has this got to do with dead cops?" he asked.

While this interrogation was going on, Sirena ,Hop and Hazel ,Dozens of CSI personell and even some FBI technicians took all three of his residences apart..piece by piece...They found nothing but the smell of bleach....No DNA or fingerprints or any evidence Maclean Heath had even been in the first two residences and only his fingerprints and DNA in the third residence...No murder weapons, no costumes...No trenchcoats, no mask...no nothing...

They walked back in the headquarters and stared at Carlotta,Rico and Jimmy...They had nothing!!

Maclean Heath smiled..

"I know you held me here while your associates raided my residences....Did you find anything?" he asked ,trying to keep himself from laughing out loud...

"Here's something to think about....The people you work for aren't going to be too pleased with you...You went too far..You killed a cop....you killed two cops...I know that that wasn't supposed to happen..."said Carlotta.

"Now we got the port on lock...cops and feds everywhere...Warehouses on lock....so not only did they lose their product...they can't bring it in....and now...WE JUST PICKED YOU UP!"said Tyriq...

"Now we know and you know that we can't hold you...We got bupkis...but it's still not a good look ,us knowing who you are and us picking you up...If I were you...I'd watch my back...Because one night...We might be standing over your body in a chalk outline."said Jimmy

''Don't count on that.."he laughed...He then looked at Carlotta.."Although SHE could stand over me at anytime she wanted to.." he said and laughed.."

And if you don't mind...I'll be leaving now." he said and got up and walked out..

I blocked his path as he walked out...

"Mr Maclean Heath....whatever you're into and whoever you're working for....I plan to stop it and you."I said.

"Yeah? That so?  I've heard it all before." he said and walked out...

Sissy stared at him...

"Smug Bastard...I want him taken down..." she said.

(TO BE CONTINUED)