D-Cups and Depositions

A Day Later ,I dropped Olivia and Beverly off at the Fox news Affiliate in San-Francisco...

Another day of contentious negotiations followed...

With Olivia and Beverly fighting for twice as much in severence and damages as was originally asked for..

 Attorney Brian Culley was clearly frustrated and flabergasted...He kept arguing that their case had no merit and for Joanie Makley to take her originally agreed upon severance.. and to be on her way...But Olivia, Beverly and Joanie wouldn't budge...

Olivia knew that the one thing they didn't want to do was go to court...and she kept hinting that they had a smoking gun that could blow the case open...

Attorney Culley was certain that she was bluffing...and he wanted to see if she would blink...

"Ms. Makely....How bout you explaining to your two attorneys about your year long affair with a married camera man who once worked for the network.. Would you really want that getting out..?" he said.

I had already found out about that and had told Olivia and Beverly ...because one thing they didn't like was being caught by surprise..

Beverly smiled..

"Yes..She was involved with an African-American Camera man for a year , who was seperated from his wife at the time...You guys fired him for seemingly no good reason...We have his employee evaluations here and several statements from his colleagues on how good his work was..." she said.

Culley was surprised that they knew that.. He was certain that he was dropping a bombshell..I had found other people ,including the camera man, willing to talk on condition of confidence and for a drink or a few dollars...They had filled in all of the spaces, Cody Jennings had left blank..

''My question here is was he terminated because of his work? Doesn't look like it. Or was he terminated because he was getting something that YOU wanted Mr. Colgate....namely ,inside Ms. Makely's panties.. and he was Black?" asked Olivia...

Bud Colgate merely laughed... He had been checking Olivia out all morning...so much so that she moved away from him...He made her feel most uncomfortable..

"Really Olivia.. Beverly? You're pulling the race card here...You gals are really stretching here.." He said.

"No more than you are...I think it certainly bears some looking into..."said Olivia...

"This is nonsense...Don't turn this into one of your left wing causes.. because it's not.." he scoffed...

Now it was Olivia's turn to laugh...

Bud Colgate was ignoring the little back and forth between Olivia and Brian Culley...His eyes were now on Olivia's cute little niece.. He had run into Beverly out in the hallway during the break and had complimented her on how cute she was...He had stared at her so hard, he had made her uncomfortable...Now , seated next to her in this conference room She felt his hands softly running up her legs...She had quietly removed his hands three times...But here he was again running his hands up her skirt, rubbing her legs...softly pulling on the elastic band of her panties...She was incredulous...She couldn't believe this guy...She removed his hands abruptly...

She looked at him harshly and said aloud...

"STOP IT PLEASE!" and got up and moved next to her Auntay and Joanie.

"Your client is soul less...He can't control himself.. Even here as he stands accused of sexual assault He is making our case for us...The ogling, running his hands up my niece's legs....He's created an unhealthy enviroment for women and we aim to prove that..." said Olivia.

"Ohhhh you can prove nothing. Don't try to turn this into one of your leftist causes..." he said.

"Leftist Causes?  A woman has been assaulted and victimized here...This is a case of simple decency....but oh yeah, You and decency is an oxymoron." said Olivia...

Olivia and Beverly laughed at that ,much to Brian Culley's consternation...

''Balderdash...Your niece was trying to entice my client...Wearing that sheer skirt...Why you can practically see her slip.." Culley Spouted....

"You've got to be kidding?" said Beverly angrily..

"Culley ...This is low, even for you....Now you saw what just happened here...Your client is out of control..." said Olivia, now finding herself getting angry...


Colgate smiled like a naughty ,mischevious boy, but said nothing.

"I saw nothing.." said Attorney Culley..

"This is exactly what I was talking about. You've never seen anything...You were present several times when he had his fat grubby hands up my skirt...and you never said anything." said Joanie...

"Ohhh Joanie, you're making things up..." spouted Attorney Brian Culley...

II-

Nelson was at Sylvia's house sleeping it off...While I was in San -Francisco at the address of Ms.  Mindy Diantonio..also known as "Mindy D-Cup"

Just yesterday Nelson had told me.."She was the Morning Anchorwoman before your client...She used to be on in Philly...First doing the weather and then the morning anchor...Let me tell you...Me, Chance, Cole and Mr. Foxworth loved it when she did the weather and Donnie Ray , WE weren't watching her for her weather forecasts if you know what I mean and I know you do?"

My wife, Olivia even knew who she was- ""Oh yeah...Mindy D.   My ex-husband , Elwood used to call her Mindy D-Cup...She was on in Philly before she moved to San-Francisco...All the guys loved her...They took a new interest in the weather whenever she was on..."laughed Olivia..

 She was indeed as attractive as everybody had said.  I had called her before I arrived at her condo and she agreed to see me...

"Can I offer you some coffee?" she said as I came in..

"Yes thank you mam." I said...

''So...my successor suffrered the same fate as I did huh?" she said.

''Yes.."

''And you're an investigator for her Attorneys right?" she said.

"That's correct mam.." I said.

"She's smart...I should have gotten a lawyer...But it was my word against him and the studio...Nobody was going to believe me.." she said.

''Didn't you tell your story to somebody?"I asked.

''People at the station...They won't talk to you.. They're too afraid of losing their jobs.. "she said.

"Tell me what happened.." I said.

"From the time I got hired ,I would catch him leering at me, staring at my boobs...I was used to that in Philly,but he took it to another level...even to the point of asking me what size bra do I wear...I played along and told him and I received a package in the mail from HIM of Black and red lace D-cup bras from Victoria's Secret....  I laughed it off...but he kept asking me everyday if I was wearing one of them and if he could see...Now he was getting a little creepy, but I just laughed it off.." she said.

''So up until then it was just inappropriate comments....No physical abuse..?" I asked.

''Right, but things escalated my second year...I received a memo asking me to wear low cut blouses or sheer blouses and Black or red lacey bras...FOR THE RATINGS!" he said..  "he wasn't asking...he was telling..
Then last year we had a staff party on July the fourth at his house...“I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he’s pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me, He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out. He said... "You've been teasing me long enough....and I can't take it anymore...You need to give me some.”

 ''Oh My God." I said, stunned at his brazenness.

"The next incident happened when we had Reed Nelson, the Trumpet Player from Philadelphia on the show...

He and his quartet were doing a series of concerts in the Bay area and I interviewed him...Then he and the group performed live on the morning show.. I was in the crowd watching...All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it’s Pete the cameraman's camera bag, That was my first instinct. I turn around and there’s Bud Colgate. He sort of looked away quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Reed Nelson, and I’m stunned, He had palmed my butt...He was shameless....I walked away and he followed me...He pulled me into the ladies restroom and...within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat, kissing me...and saying he couldn't control his erections around me and that I had to stop being so sexy...It was like a wrestling match in that restroom and the only thing that saved me was that he ejaculated in his pants right there in the bathroom and I broke free and ran...I was torn and shaken and I told several people in the Newsroom and several security people...They all shook their heads...They kept saying...but he's the boss.. I knew I couldn't count on them.." she said.

"The straw that broke the camels back was when it was time to renegotiate my contract....He and his slick lawyer.. Brian Culley  met with me in their conference room...Colgate couldn't concentrate on the negotiations. He had his hands up my dress and his fingers in my panties...I forcibly removed his hands and ran out....I turned in my resignation the next morning.." she said.

''What do you do now?" I asked.

"I do the Morning News for a small local Cable Affiliate.." she said.

"It doesn't pay nearly as much as before does it?" I asked.

''No, but I feel safe...I'm not ogled and assaulted.. I wish I'd gotten a lawyer , fought back..." she said.

''I can't get you any money...but I can get you something you've been wanting for a long time....REVENGE!" I said.

She smiled...I asked her if she had a place she could stay for a few days...She said she had a girlfriend in Nearby Richmond...She packed a bag and loaded her car and headed for her girlfriend's place...I had the number and address if I needed her.

I had been a cop too long...I knew when I was being followed....I figured , a slick Attorney like Culley had somebody gathering information, Just like Olivia and Beverly had me...I checked my rental car....I found three GPS devices...and eventually a forth...I turned it in and got a new car...

I found four GPS devices on their car....They turned theirs in also...From now on we would just use the one car....




III-

Attorney Brian Cully admonished his client Bud Colgate...

Olivia, Joanie and Beverly had left for the day...Tomorrow if they couldn't come to an agreement...They would have to go to court before a Judge..

"Have you lost your mind? Running your hands up the dress of your opponents co-counsel?? Are you trying to lose this case??" he screamed...

''Don't raise your voice to me...I pay you, remember Brian???."said Bud Colgate...

"You realize Joanie hired two heavy hitters don't you...Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West are no slouches..." he said.

"Neither are you Brian...You can handle them...This is a dog of a case...Joanie is bluffing...."he said.

"You better hope so...I had one of my best men on this...A former Lock Pick and Heist guy I once put away and an ex-Detective...They followed her husband...He went to a DNA lab a few days ago...Two times...Which means they have something with your DNA on it..." said Brian Culley...

"I ripped a pair of panties off of her , but that was months ago...If they had them for evidence...They would have used them by now.." said Colgate..

"We didn't find them in the house where The three of them are staying and there is no safe deposit box in San-Francisco or Oakland under any of them's name...They broke into the Innocence Project Office where they do all of their research and they found nothing there either..." said Culley...

''Which means they don't have anything..."said Colgate...

"Which means they aren't showing anything...I've followed Olivia Bennett's career.. She's never surprised and always prepared...No, they're holding out and waiting to strike...Whatever they've got ...It's somewhere where we can't find it...The Husband has talked to a number of people.." said Culley..

''It's hear say...He said, She said. It won't stand up..."said Colgate..

"You'd better hope you're right.. If this goes to court...You're cooked.. She could use her Niece as a witness against you...." said Culley..

"Relax.. Just call their bluff, See who blinks first...They're playing chicken..."said Colgate...

"Oh yeah? That husband of hers visited...Mindy D-Cup today...Remember her?? You're damn lucky she didn't fight..." said Culley...

"How she gonna fight? That Condo she lives in was paid for by the Station...You think she can afford that place working for that Cable Station she works for?" laughed Colgate...

"I hope you're right.."said Culley.


"I am right...Just remind her that her nice condo was a condition of her silence.." said Colgate...


Brian Culley just shook his head as Bud Colgate walked out of the conference room.. He personally thought Bud Colgate was a letch and a bit of an asshole.. but he was a paying asshole. A well paying asshole.

That night... Olivia and I, Beverly and Nelson and Larry North ,Sylvia and their baby....

all had a fantastic meal, prepared by Sylvia...

"Sylvia , you keep feeding me like this and I'll move my whole operation out here to San-Francisco." joked Olivia...

"Oh stop it...You know you love Philly!" said Sylvia..

"I knew you had some Louisiana Roots girl.." I laughed...

"You gotta share some of these recipes with us girlfriend." said Beverly...

Nelson played with the baby as Larry North looked on...He had a new respect for Nelson...He looked at Sylvia and was filled with nothing but pure love...probably for the first time...

He smiled..

"So how is your case going?" he asked.

"Barring some last minute surprise...We got this in the bag..." said Olivia..

I looked at Nelson...

''Did you go to Oakland today?" I asked.

''Sure did..Got the Panties and the Evidence file right here.." he said.

I figured any good investigator would make the connection between "Jimmy West " and Olivia and Beverly.. and I didn't want our evidence compromised...So I had Nelson fetch it and close the account...You had to stay one step ahead of these snakes...

Olivia rubbed my hands softly...

"Ummmm Mama is so going to take care of you tonight.." she whispered in my ear....

"You got a keeper there Larry" said Beverly pointing to Sylvia..

Sylvia Blushed....

Larry smiled..

"I know.." he said softly....

We all lifted our goblets of wine and toasted....

(CONCLUSION NEXT)