Sweet Lizzy Bear's Blues

Attorney Elwood Barnes was shocked when he answered his doorbell to his condo and saw his ex-wife and my current wife, Olivia Bennett-Alexander standing in the doorway...

''Olivia...Well this is a nice surprise..I didn't expect to hear from you this soon..."said Elwood, who couldn't hide the huge smile on his face or the growing erection in his trousers at the sight of her...

"Hello Elwood...I won't be long...this is a Friday afternoon...I imagine you are uh planning to go out tonight or you might be having company."said Olivia...

"I have plenty of time for you Livy....Always.." he said... She was wearing a tight Black Mini skirt and an alluring top....He couldn't take his eyes off of her...

"So uh...where is that husband of yours? You two are still married aren't you?" he asked.

"Yes...Very much so.."said Olivia...

"You two aren't....uh...Having any uh trouble are you?" he asked.

Olivia smiled..

"As much as you'd love to hear that...No, we aren't...We are good...Very Good."said Olivia..

''So uh, where is pesky niece?" he asked..

"Beverly is with Donnie Ray, they are doing an interview for a case I'm working on...Which is why I'm here.."said Olivia..

"You need my assistance with trial preparation?" he asked..

Olivia smiled...

"No....Beverly and my cousin Kayla are more than enough.."she said...She pulled out a glossy of Elwood's 2012 White Mercedes Benz...

"That's your car isn't it? The one I was supposed to get in the settlement right?" she said.

The erection in his trousers went down...

"A car? You came over here for that car???....Liv...I don't have it...I sold that car...Years ago.." he said...

"No you didn't...and I don't want the car...I don't care about the car....Look at the photo..It's time stamped and dated...That car..Your car was sitting outside the house of Billy Harris on the day his wife was murdered..She had one more visitor after he left the house..Whoever it was came in that car...Your Car!" said Olivia..

''Whoaaaaaaaaaaa...Whoaaa, Whoaaa...Whoaaaaa..Hold on Olivia!!!...I didn't kill anybody...I remember that case..I remember that day...You and I were in court fighting over that very car...Alll Morning...I never even met that woman who got killed or him for that matter."he said.

Olivia rubbed his legs..Which made him erect all over again....She saw it and she removed her hand....

"I know you didn't kill anybody and I know you and I were in court that day....I know that...but Glenda...Glenda Avery, your second wife may have had that car...I used to find her panties and her bras under the seat all the time...before we got divorced..."said Olivia..

"No...It wasn't Glenda....She didn't have the car that day...I know that for a fact...Glenda was in Atlantic City....but I remember who did have the car that day...Oh My God...." he said.

"Who?"asked Olivia....

"This other Attorney...I gave her the keys....She uh, Well she was uh in love with this old dude...Dude used to be married to Billy Harris's wife....He was the first husband...Twenty years older, but loaded...Anyway..She and him were living together...She handled his divorce...She and I knew each other in passing and she asked if she could borrow my car...She knew I owned three...I asked her why and she told me that uh...She didn't have her car...It was in the shop and she needed to run a few errands...She was lying...I don't know why she was lying...But I called her on it...I told her I saw her car in the parking lot this morning...She begged me for my car, swore to me that she'd bring it back before the end of the day...Asked me if there wasn't a way we could uh work something out.."he laughed slyly..

"And of course..there was wasn't there?" asked Olivia, laughing...

"Yes indeed!!!....We worked things out all morning in the back seat of my car ,until about oh 10:30..Then she had to go...She never told me where...She brought my car back around 3:00 pm...It smelled all bleachy, which I thought was odd." he said.

''What was her name?"asked Olivia.

"Elizabeth Jonovich...Sweet Lizzy Bear..."he laughed..."Oh Uh sorry Liv." he said.

"Elwood...We aren't married anymore...You don't have to apologize to me for anything anymore."said Olivia.

"Would you go to the courthouse with me on Monday and testify to what you told me with a judge present?" asked Olivia...

"Hmmm can we uh work somethin out.??Heh heh heh!" laughed Elwood...staring at her sexy legs and the tight mini skirt she was wearing and licking his lips...

"Never Mind...I knew it was a mistake ,Me coming here.."said Olivia, who got up and headed for the door.....Elwood softly grabbed her arm...

"Liv wait!!....Livy...Baby...I'm kidding...I'll do whatever you want....You can't blame me for trying." he laughed.




II-

Three Days Later

 "I was a little worried about Auntay, being alone with that snake Elwood...but everything turned out okay."said Beverly as we drove to the home of Austin Cauliflower....The first husband of Billy Harris's murdered wife...Evelyn...

"Your Auntay can handle herself....I'm was never the least bit worried.." I said.

"She really loves you Donnie Ray....Like no man I've ever seen her with before..."said Beverly..

 "I know...and I never want to give her a reason not to....I really love her too." I said.

''Awwww, I know...I knew it from the first time I met you....The way you looked at her...The way you talked about her to me.."said Beverly.. as we drove up to the house and parked.

The house was beautiful....

Mr. Cauliflower came to the door himself...He was about five foot nine...still athletically built...Head full of gray hair and in his satin bathrobe...

His wife, some twenty years younger was very shapely and attractive...came to the door behind him...

"You two the attorneys that called earlier?"he asked..

"I'm Attorney Beverly West....One of the attorneys representing Billy Harris.."said Beverly..

"And I'm Donnie Ray Alexander....I'm an investigator ...I'm also on the case..."I said.

"Why are you here? We have nothing to do with that? Isn't he due to be executed soon?" asked his wife..

"This is my wife...Elizabeth." said Austin Cauliflower..

"You're an Attorney...Didn't you used to be Elizabeth Jonovich?" I asked..

"I still am Elizabeth Jonovich, it's just that I'm Elizabeth Jonovich Caulifllower...Just as your wife is Olivia Bennett-Alexander." she remarked.

"You know who we are." I said.

"Yes..I do.." she remarked.

"So you know what this is about?" asked Beverly...

"Frankly no...I am hoping you will tell me soon..."said Austin Cauliflower....

"I know who they are Austin.."said Elizabeth.

"Well, you were married to Emily Grayson at one time right?" asked Beverly...

"Yes..." he said.

''Why are you asking him that? What has this got to do with anything?" asked Elizabeth..

I pulled out some glossies of the 2012 Mercedes Benz parked in front of the Harris house....

"You wanted to get back with Emily didn't you?" I asked Austin...

"Austin, you don't have to answer any of their questions...Look my husband is innocent...This matter has been settled..A Jury convicted that womanizing dirt bag of murder...He's set to meet his maker and pay for what he did...Why are you trying to pin this on my husband?" asked Elizabeth?

"Oh we are not...We happen to know that at the time of the murder...between 11:30-12:00 noon...Your Husband was at a meeting of his shareholders downtown that began at 9:00 and didn't end until 11:45...No way he could have been half way across town and committed murder."I said..

"Then why are you here Mr. Alexander?" asked Austin...

"Ever see that car?" I asked and showed him the photos...

"Nope...It's not mine..." he said.

"You have haven't you Elizabeth? You've seen that car, haven't you?" asked Beverly...looking at Elizabeth..with a side eye and smiling.

She smiled uneasily...

"No...No...That's not my car...My car was in the lot of my law firm all morning.." she said.

"Yes it was...You asked a friend...Another Attorney named Elwood Barnes if you could borrow his car that day...See that's his car..we know because my Auntay used to be married to him...When we saw these photos taken on the day of the murder and with a traffic cam, we knew who the car belonged to....And Elwood Barnes has already testified under oath with an attorney present and a judge that he lent you his car for the day after you two had consensual sex that morning..."said Beverly...

Austin looked at his wife..

"Elizabeth, My god...Is this true...??" he asked..

"No..No..None of it...Barnes is a born liar..." she said.

Beverly went in her purse and pulled out a plastic bag....It had a Blue striped bra and blue panties with an orange band around the waist...

Elizabeth was horrified!!!

"Oh My God...Where did you find those?" she asked..

"Yesssss...I've been asking you to wear those for me for two years now."said Austin,smiling salaciously...

"These are yours I believe...You left them under the seat of the car....You wiped the car down for fingerprints and DNA, but you forgot to retrieve these...We found them...I'm betting your DNA is still on them after all these years...He lied about selling the car because he didn't want to give that car up to my Auntay in a divorce settlement...The car was in a garage...Lucky for us." said Beverly..

"So what? I was in his car...It proves nothing.." said Elizabeth..

"It proves a lot...That this was you who visited Emily Grayson Harris that morning right after her husband left...You were seen...It was your investigator who found the incriminating photos of him in the bed with that young girl he met at the gym.....Just like that same investigator found photos of Her and her future husband ,Billy Harris making love...That's how you got Austin his divorce isn't it???"I said.

"It must have burned you up to learn that after all that...Austin still wanted to get back with her...That they had had lunch a few days before, that she had told him she was leaving Billy...and that she was thinking about him...So you went and talked to her didn't you?" asked Beverly...

Austin was astounded..

"Oh My God...Elizabeth...What did you doooooo?" he asked..

The doorbell rang...

It was my wife, Olivia and Kayla...

Elizabeth yelled...

"Both of you OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!" she screamed....

"Oh My God...Elizabeth...What did you doooooo?"  asked Austin..

 "Tell him Elizabeth!!!...TELL HIM! Tell him how you knowingly slept with my then-husband and left your panties and bra in our car.." said Olivia..

In the background...You could hear a police siren...several police sirens....

Elizabeth sat down.....Tears flowed from her eyes...

"Yes...I went to talk to Emily....I told her I was in love with Austin....I told her I wanted to marry him...I told her to back off...She was a pretty girl..She could have any man she wanted..Just leave Austin alone...She had the nerve to tell me no... She told me no and not to come to her house again....I didn't mean to kill her...I hit her with the first thing I could get my hands on....I was sooo mad...Ouuuuuuuuu I was soo mad..."she said...

"And you came back with bleach and cleaned the doorknobs and the murder weapon and wiped the car down.....I have the receipt....It was on your credit card for then..You purchased the bleach just an hour before the body was discovered." said Kayla..

Elizabeth looked at Austin....

"I love you baby....I did it because I wanted you so bad...all of it...I needed you..I wanted you so baddddd." she said.

Austin was beside himself with anger...

"Oh yeah...Even sleep with that snake...Elwood Barnes?" he said.

" .I did it because I wanted you so bad...all of it...I needed you..I wanted you so baddddd.I would have done anything...Yes I slept with Elwood...Just to get the keys to his car..He meant nothing to me..everybody knew that he'd do anything for sex..." she said.

Beverly snickered...

Olivia just shook her head..

"I wish I'd known..." was all she'd say.

"I'm so sorry Olivia...I didn't mean to sleep with your husband..." said Elizabeth.

"It's okay...I'm not married to him anymore...I'm married to him" she said pointing to me and smiling lovingly.

"You let an innocent man sit on death row for four years...My god woman!!!..." said Austin...

"Innocent??...Billy Harris had his penis inside everything with a skirt and a pair of panties back then ..He was a womanizing dirtbag..."she spat...

"But he's not a killer.."said Austin silently....

"He had his penis inside everything with a skirt and a pair of panties..Nasty lowdown dog!~" she said again...

"And you ought to know that first hand...You'd slept with him too!!...A year before...Isn't that right Elizabeth?"said Olivia.

Elizabeth smiled sheepishly....

"Yes...Yesss I did...Ouuuuuu the things that man did to me in the bed...OHHHH!!!....Then I found out he was married...He was such a liar...He used me..." she said ,shaking...and trembling...

The Police arrived and handcuffed Elizabeth and read her her rights...and walked her out...

Kayla hugged me ,Olivia and Beverly...

"How can I ever thank you three?? You pulled it off.." she said...

''We all did..It was a team effort!"said Olivia...

''Anybody else feel like a drink besides me?" I asked.

"I could go for one..."said Olivia..

"You aint never lied...How bout you Kayla girl?" asked Beverly...

''Yeah...Pour me one too..." she said as the four of us walked out the door and down the driveway..

EPILOUGE-

 Elizabeth Jonovich Cauliflower was convicted of the  second degree murder of Emily Grayson Harris and sentenced to 15-30 years...Light considering they sentenced Billy Harris to Death when he went on trial for the same damn thing...She had better legal representation.

In Lieu of the new evidence...Billy Harris's conviction and sentence was completely overturned and he was released immediately.....There was no need for another appeal.

 ADA Alicia Shapiro ,her investigator and a white male attorney were present when Billy Harris was set free...She angrily turned to both of them...

"You're both fired!" she said.

''What? "said the Black woman..."I've been with you for years...Your record was spotless because of my investigations..."she protested...

"And now it's not because you didn't get me the information I needed..." she snapped..

"I COULDN'T FIND THEM!" protested the black woman...

"WELL NOW YOU NEED TO FIND ANOTHER JOB!" said Alicia Shapiro...

"BITCH!" screamed the Black woman as she stormed off..

"What are you firing me for?" asked the White lawyer...

"Your bumbling during their last appeal is why they got a stay in the first place...Get out of my sight.."she said.

"YOU BITCH! He was innocent!!!..You were going to let an innocent man die just to preserve your record...You BITCH!!! I'm glad I don't work for you anymore.."he said and stomped his foot and stormed off..

"I'M TIRED OF PEOPLE CALLING ME A BITCH!!!" she screamed to the top of her lungs and stomped her feet....

"Bitch shut up all that damn noise!" said an old man walking by.....

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" she screamed!

Alicia Shapiro lost her bid for Attorney General..AGAIN!! In The Fall election.

"Ouuu, they didn't take that decision too well did they?" I said smiling...

Olivia laughed....

"No I guess not." she said.

 

Beverly smiled  and shook her head... "Come on Baby...Let's go home..." she said to Nelson...

"Great idea...It was worth it just seeing Shapiro lose the case and lose it mentally.."laughed Nelson...

"You guys won your first capital case huh?" said Ryan..

"No...Olivia and Beverly have won four...I was just fortunate to be along for the ride and the education.."said Kayla..

Newly freed Billy Harris walked over to Kayla...

"A word Kayla" he said..

"Yes Billy?" she asked.

"That's your man?" he asked.

"Yes it is..." she said.

"You two serious? he asked.

''We just started dating..but it's getting there."she said.

"And that's Beverly's man huh?" he asked.

"Yes it is...They are very serious."said Kayla.

"Wow!" he mused...

"Goodbye Billy....Have a good life."said Kayla..

"Kayla...uh you think uh maybe I might call you sometimes?"he asked.

"My man wouldn't like that....Goodbye Billy.."said Kayla...

He stood there and watched as the six of us left the courthouse...

Billy Harris lived in Angel City and even got a job as a counselor  for about six months before he returned to Philadelphia...

He has entered a program for sexual addiction.

"Come on Folks...Our cabs are waiting...I can't wait to get out of here and back to Philly.." I said.

''Are all of us going to be able to get in that one cab?" asked Olivia.

"There's another one behind it...Come on Nelson" said Beverly as she and Nelson got in the first cab and pulled off..

''You don't have to tell me twice."laughed Nelson...

"Come on Babes...We got the second one." Said Ryan..

Kayla looked at Olivia and I

"I'll see you guys at the airport...Thank you soooo much."she said.

"Glad you got closure darlin.." I said and Olivia and I got in the third cab and we headed towards the airport

"Let's get out of here...Goodbye Angel City."said Olivia ,  As we got in the last Uber cab  and pulled off...

The sun was shining bright today I noticed as we headed for the Airport!