This Is The Guy

That same afternoon at an apartment complex....

A BMW drove up ! Four men were in the car.... A Driver, Millionaire Playboy, Nolan Cantana...His new Attorney, Lloyd Jones and another man, dressed in all black..who said nothing...The man in black got out and walked quietly down the street...

Nolan Cantana pointed to an open window and looked at his Attorney...

"Listen to that Lloyd...This is the guy ...This is the guy who was handling my dummy account and who was supposed to extort money from the law firm of Alexander and West...Just like he's done many times before...THIS IS THE GENIUS ,THE SO CALLED COMPUTER GENIUS, who has been keeping me from having to pay exorbant fees when these bitches sue me, rather than get with the program ..and listen.."he said.

The window was open and they could hear a bed squeaking loudly ,slamming against the wall and the moans and sounds of serious lovemaking..

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

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Lana...Lana ...ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh..."

"Sock it to me Amel...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

"LAWDDD girl, what are you doing to meeeee?"

"What am I doing to you? What are you doing to MEEEEEE?"

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gooooddddddd lawdd it's soooo goood...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh I've missed you girl...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweeeeet jesusssssssssss you are a demon in the bedddddddddd...arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."
 
"Morrre...Morreee....morrre...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. AMEL..ouuuuuu..AMEL....OHHHHHHH."
she wailed...

"Ohhhh Lana, Lana ,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..I'm losin my minddddddddd!! "

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...I love you soooooooooooooo much...ouuuuuuuuuuuu..AMEL!!!"

 "Damn Nolan...You gonna interrupt him at a time like this?" asked Attorney Lloyd Jones , a former public defender ,who had only recently gone into private practice...A very capable attorney, who had proved himself quite valuable to the company that Nolan Cantana owned..

"Let him finish.."sighed Noel, who cracked open a beer and began to slowly sip it...

"You want a beer Lloyd" he asked.

"I don't drink...I'll take a cold water..." said Lloyd..

"Bosco, pass him a cold water..." snapped Nolan Cantana..

The driver passed the Attorney a cold bottle of water...

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

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Lana...Lana...ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh..."

"Sock it to me Amel...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu baby..OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.."

  They could hear them out on the street...The bed was slamming against the wall....and squeaking something crazy...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Amel, you're making me comeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."

''HANG on baby...I'm coming tooo...WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, NELLLLLIEEEEEE..."

''Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH lawddddddd!"

Came the sounds from the third floor window....The bed stopped squeaking and slamming against the wall....The moaning stopped...

Several passers by smiled and snickered...

A half hour later...A Shapely and attractive young woman left in a raincoat and a scarf around her head and dark sunglasses...She got in a car across the street and pulled off...

Noel Cantana looked at Bosco and Lloyd...

"Keep the motor running...I won't be long." he said and he entered the building..

Amel answered the door..He was in his boxer shorts.....

"Oh It's you...I was meaning to call you...We got a bit of a problem.." said Amel.

"A bit of a problem???...My shadow account loses every penny, Millions and you call that a BIT OF A PROBLEM?" said Cantana..

"Hey man...I have no idea how our system was breached...That has never happened before..Never...!!"

"It only takes once....They looted my entire account...The bank closed it and the debit card I had for it and cancelled my credit card..."said Noel trying to hide his smouldering anger...

"Hey man it wasn't my fault...These guys were professionals "exclaimed Amel..

"Yeah,which explains why you were helpless against them!" remarked Nolan.

"Yeah and they nuked the system....wiped out all of our files...and destroyed the encryption we had on the Alexander-West account...Those guys are good.." said Amel..

"Idiot...This wasn't them..They're just some lawyers..This was somebody else.." said Cantana..

"Feds?" asked Amel..

"No..If it was...They'd be here at your door and you and your little chippy would be locked up.."he said.

"Hey man you know I'm solid..I'd never tell em nothin Noel..."said Amel..

"Yeah,yeah ,yeah,whatever...Clean up all those computers...and get out of here...Tonight." he said.

"I already scrubbed the computers and got rid of em ...I need some money to get out of town.."said Amel..

"You must be off your nut...Get the hell out of here...I aint payin you another red cent...I can't..They wiped out all of my dough...The dough I was payin you from."said Noel...

"So...So I'm fired right?" said Amel...now a little angry...

"Yeah..pretty much....While you were sleepin..We got breached...and I lost every damn thing.." he said.

"Aww man you got plenty of money that was pocket change..."said Amel..

"MY POCKET CHANGE!!! Your pay....No pocket change...No money for you...Now pack your crap and get out...and I don't ever want to see you again..."he said and walked away..

"Man you wrong..You wrong for this..."said Amel now visibly upset...

Cantana got back in the car...

"Hey where was that other guy who was in here..?" asked Lloyd..

"He's gone...He can get home on his own....Bosco...Let's get out of here...This neighborhood smells."said Cantana...

Amel was packing his clothes when he heard a loud knock on his door...

"Aww Who is this?" he asked.

He answered the door only to see a man dressed in black...Holding a .357 magnum...He didn't even get a chance to react before two shots were fired...One shot went right between his eyes and exited out the back of his head...

The second shot hit him in the chest....

He fell backward on the bed and then on the floor...Dead before his body hit the ground...

II-

ONE WEEK LATER-

The sexual harrassment trial continued....

Olivia and Beverly and their client were back in court with a new Judge.. A woman this time... An older woman...

A new jury of five women and one man...

Noel Cantana was back with a new lawyer...

Lloyd Jones..

"Oh my god...Beverly West!" exclaimed Lloyd Jones..

''Hey Lloyd...How are you?" said Beverly..

"I'm good... I see you're a ,uh partner in your Aunt's firm huh? Nice.." he said.

"And you work for Mr. Cantana." she said.

"Yeah...Just started...So How Have you been otherwise?  You uh seeing anybody?" he asked..

"Yeah...Actually I am...Nelson East...We been kickin it for awhile now..."she said.

"You guys serious ?" he asked.

"Yeah, Pretty much!" she said.

"Nelson hung in there huh? We all told him you were out of his league and you'd never go out with him...But he ignored us and kept at it...Guess he knew more than any of us.." laughed Lloyd..

"Guess he did...Well, I must be going now...Nice seeing you again.. Good Luck "she said.

"Yeah, good luck to you too." he said.

"Hey.. Hey...You know her huh?" said Noel..

"Yeah.. We were in uh law school together and we worked together in the Public Defenders Office." said Lloyd..

"You bang that?" asked Noel...

"No man.. She's a friend..."exclaimed Lloyd...

"I'd like her and her sexy Auntie to be my friends...IN THE BED!  After this trial is over I'm gonna ask both of em to join me in bed.." he said.

"Noel, you're crazy...The Aunt is married...That guy in the suit over there next to her is her husband...

"He's an Investigator for them...Used to be a Homicide cop.. You might want to leave her alone." he said.

"I don't care about him...If I wanted her bad enough I'd still ask her ...but your hot little friend aint married...I'm gettin a woodie just lookin at her.. I'd ride her like a horse.. "said Noel..

III-

 The trial resumed..

 Olivia and Beverly argued passionately in Nicole Beverly's defense...That she had been let go after resisting several unwanted sexual advances by Mr. Cantana...

Lloyd Jones proved to be a very tenacious attorney....Attacking the claims and citing bad work performance....

Olivia and Beverly attacked his witnesses on cross and presented several positive evaluations up until the sexual advances occurred...

In the coming days ,Olivia put Noel Cantana on trial-

There was three abortions in his past....With the young ladies paid well to keep quiet...
Two marriages that ended badly that were still in litigation...No children from either of them..Olivia and Beverly subpeoned the three young women and the two ex-wives and against Lloyd Jones's protests they were allowed to testify...He gamely attacked them on cross, but they held to their stories..
She brought up that he was actually seperated from wife number three..Who charged him with spousal rape! This wife refused to come forth...
Then there were 27 other women who had accused him of sexual harrassment and like the 27 other women...The law firms that handled the cases started having problems..

Power outages...Their computers had their files encrypted with the same ransom malware, with the threat of having their client information, financial information and other confidential information released unless they paid a ransom...Usually half to one million dollars...

Noel argued that this wasn't relevant to the current trial and couldn't be proved...The Judge agreed and struck that from the records....But the Jury had already heard it!

The law firms all hired Private Investigators to try and find out who was blackmailing them, but they couldn't and so all of them wound up paying the ransom fee to get their files released and returned to them.. They also settled for much less than they might have got or made the case go away altogether..

Noel again argued that this wasn't relevant to the current trial and couldn't be proved...The Judge agreed and struck that from the records....But the Jury had already heard it!

 Lloyd fought hard and brilliantly to have all of this supressed and struck from the record...but the judge allowed  some of it...

If Noel Cantana was smirking and sleeping during the first weeks of this trial...He was certainly awake now...He didn't have a judge he could control ,He didn't have us against the wall, even though we couldn't prove that he had anything to do with the ransom malware...

The body of Amel Hardwick, the hacker who set up the dummy account and who it had been proven was hacking us and blackmailing the others had been found on the floor of his apartment...


He had been shot to death...The trail ended with him...We did however have video of him in our office ,three weeks prior to our files being hacked.. He posed as a telephone repairman and asked to look at our lines...This was how he gained access to our phone lines and internet.. I forwarded this information to Sharon and the FBI.


Still , There was nothing that tied him even remotely to Noel Cantana..

but the cop in me told me that he was indeed involved...He wouldn't look me in the eye and I could tell just my being around made him nervous...

Beverly showed affidavits filed by his former attorneys that he groped them during the trial..He groped one's breasts and put his hand up the skirt of another...

"If even his former attorneys were complaining of this...Can you imagine Ms.Nicole  Beverly and those other poor women...?" said Beverly..

Poor Lloyd Jones was doing the best he could do...but he was no match for the Olivia -Beverly juggernaut! He was just out classed....and he knew it!

Finally the case was given to the jury...Five women and one man... Lloyd had wisely played to the man, the lone man on the jury in his sumnation...because Olivia and Beverly had those five women in the palms of their hands.....The best he could hope for he reasoned was a hung jury...and if so..He was going to make Olivia and Beverly an offer...

He explained to Noel..

"That's the only play you got left.." he said...

IV-

Beverly was getting a soda out of one of the vending machines when she felt the body heat of someone behind her..

It was Noel Cantana...

"Hey" he said..

"Hey yourself." said Beverly...

"You did good in there today....Very good! I wished you were my lawyer...Look, the trial is almost over.. Why don't uh me and you uh burry the hatchet... go out, have a few drinks, some dinner and then back to my place..Work some things out." he said.

"You're kidding right? I'm opposing counsel. We have nothing to work out!"said Beverly...

"Your auntie is opposing counsel...You're the co-opposing counsel...And I just gotta tell ya..I'm not opposed to exploring inside your panties..." he snarled..

"Really?" said Beverly unfazed by what he said.

"Yeah Really?I've been known to turn a few women out..."he bragged.

"That's not what I heard from some women who actually had sex with you...I heard you're not that great and that a woman who sleeps with you short changes herself if you know what I mean?" smirked Beverly..

He smiled..but he was visibly upset at her affront to his manhood...He tried to play it off with more braggadocio..

"Awwww....Awwww... you got jokes huh? You aint talk to nobody...Aint nobody I-I been with ever complained or or or or said nothin like that!" he said.

"They didn't want to hurt your feelings"said Beverly tersely.

Beverly was already tired of talking to him... He was about ten years older than her and she had broken him down in two sentences...He wasn't worth her time under any circumstances...

"Nolan...I'm not interested.. Not the least bit...You're a bit too crass for me.."said Beverly...

He grabbed her arm...Now he was angry!!

"I like feisty women like you...With smart mouths....After you've gone a round in the sack with me..You aint so feisty any more.."he said..

"Take your hands off of me loser!!.."said Beverly...

I snatched his arm off of her..put it behind his back and slammed his head off the wall hard,...

"ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!!!!" he moaned..

"Touch her again!!!...Say anything to her again and I'll break your arm tough guy!!!...Now TRY ME!!! PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I said..

I grabbed his fat little neck and whispered in his ear....

"I know that Amel Hardwick worked for you...He was too stupid to set all that up himself.....And if he was clockin that much dough...he'd of been livin a lot larger than that cheap apartment complex he was livin in.....I just can't prove it....And I know that that Judge was in your pocket too..He tends to talk too much when he gets angry...Again I can't prove it yet! Remember this...I used to be a cop...I aint a cop no more...If I ever find out you had anything to do with this....A jive ass court case will be the least of your worries...Ya Feel me playa?"I said..

"Donnie Ray!" came Olivia's soft voice...

"Donnie Ray!!!!...Donnie Ray honey...let him go....Beverly is alright...Let him go honey.." said Olivia gently..

I let him go...

He glared at me angrily... He was hurt and embarrassed as well as frustrated by Beverly's rejection of his advances..as well as the beat down I had just put on him in front of her.. And the fact that a woman had saved his bacon really hurt his fragile ego...


"There's a whole lot you can't prove , you rent a cop...Watch your back!" he snarled..


"You watch yours, you cheap punk!" I said.


He stomped his foot and stormed off.. A small knot was growing on the side of his head...

VI-

That afternoon as we were arriving at our home....Olivia and Beverly had gone inside..

 "So glad this day is over and this trial is going to the jury...I think we got this one."said Olivia..

"Me too Auntay...I'll be glad not to ever have to look at that snarky Noel Cantana again.."said Beverly..

They put their cars in the garage...I parked my car on the side as I usually do...

Just as I got out...A Black Lexus blocked my path...A man dressed in all black...with aviator shades leaped out..I ducked..

He fired a .357 magnum at me..

I returned his fire with my .38 smokeless..

Just then I heard a familliar voice..

"Drop that gun...both of you..." It was FBI Deputy Special Agent in charge, Sharon Hopkins..and three FBI agents..She was talking to the shooter and his driver who was now shooting at me too!

The man who fired at me fired another shot...I ducked..

The three FBI Agents mowed him down...He was shot at least seven times...He spun around like a top  and then collapsed... He was dead before he hit the ground...His aviator shades broken...his dark clothes now a crimson red...The driver tried to back up...He had a a pistol and he fired once at the agents...but bullets from the FBI guns riddled him and blew him out of the drivers seat and on to the street...where he was pronounced dead at the scene...

"Oh My God...Donnie Ray ,are you alright?" said Olivia ,who grabbed me and hugged me..

"Donnie Ray!!!"screamed Beverly who hugged me too..

Josie also came running out...

"Mr. A. You alright?" she asked..

"I'm fine...I'm in much better shape than  these two clowns..."I said.

"This is Eric Severeid, a known killer for hire and our suspect in the murder of international hacker...Amel Hardwick.....and this other poor fellow is Bosco Alston..ex convict and former driver for Nolan Cantana..

"Before you pick him up...Let me have five minutes with him.."I snarled.

"Pick him up?? Nolan Cantana...On what charge? There is no known ties between him and Severeid and he fired Bosco Alston, a week ago..We got nothin on him...But we are still watching him." she said.

"Tell me...you got an anonymous tip he was coming here to kill me right?" I said.

"No..we intercepted a text he got from an unknown sender...The text was relayed through the Ukraine and then through Norway...A neat little trick..We traced it all the way to an apartment complex here in Philly
 belonging to , get this..."Neil Castaway" laughed Sharon..

I laughed...Bonnie Shay and I had told Sharon all about our business and several other law firms being hacked and how we had reversed the hack and nuked the system and we gave her the ip address we had...belonging to the ficticious Neil Castaway who we suspected was really Noel Cantana.

Unfortunately...by the time she got a warrant and The FBI fell upon Amel Hardwick's apartment..they found him shot to death...

Their number one suspect...A Killer for hire out of Israel named Eric Severeid...This man lying dead here in front of our house...The driver , Bosco Alston was an ex-convict and a driver for hire...Collateral damage..

"You apparently pissed someone off today Donnie Ray...The text was aimed at you..It said to blast you, and only you..and the language was pretty salty...Naturally the call came from a burner phone..."said Sharon..

"Noel Cantana forgot where to put his hands this afternoon after court...He got a little free and loose with Shortcake and I showed him the error of his ways...He probably still has a headache"I smirked.."I'd gladly find him and give him another one."I said, hugging Beverly..

Beverly's body was so round ,so warm....so cuddly...You didn't know if you wanted to hug her or make love to her first....


"You've done enough...You're staying here with Auntay and me." she said and continued to hug me..

''Shortcake...You gotta stop turning these men on like this..You gonna get someone killed..Better be glad it wasn't your daddy that caught Cantana...I might be drawing a chalk line around him." she laughed..

"Oh My God...Don't you know it...Jimmy almost killed a guy who stuck his hand up my dress when I was 16..."said Olivia..

"I remember that...Donnie Ray, it's all good...Stay at home...He'll find out that his boys are deceased and if I know right he'll simmer down..Just keep your distance...He'll slip up and when he does...We'll get him!" said Sharon..

"Don't worry Sharon...I'll keep him inside...tonight anyway..." said Olivia..

"If she can't.. Nobody can.." said Beverly laughing and kissing me on the cheek...

"Thank you for protecting me though...He's a scary guy..."said Beverly...

 "No problem" I said.

"Come on guys...let's go inside." said Josie..

Sharon looked at her agents...

"Alright guys...clean this up." she said..

We watched as both bodies were put in body bags, zippered up and carted away...

(CONCLUSION NEXT)