An Early Honeymoon

Attorney Nelson East sat with Bonnie Sheppard, his client...It was one of the rare times she was alone and without her shadow...Stephanie Cullen...

Nelson had called her and asked her to meet him privately at this tony downtown bistro....He had taken Beverly here just a week before...

"Go ahead..tell me what happened.." He said quietly...

"I met with Ralph...For drinks...Just drinks....I was getting married...He said...

"You really gonna marry that clown.."

I said.."Stop it Ralph...He's a good singer...and an acomplished actor.."

"Accomplished Actor...My ass...He's been on a couple of sitcoms as a guest star and he's been like a...like a charactor actor in a couple of movies....Which he hasn't been in ,in about five years....And when was the last time he had a hit record out? Huh?You gonna wind up supporting him...Or you're gonna be on a reality show or somethin..." he said..

"You're just a hater Ralph.."I said..

"Well One thing I don't hate...and that's....you baby....How bout we get out of here and go back to my place for one last time...you know...One for the road.."He said...

I was incredulous...

"Ralph, you can't be serious? I'm about to get married in a few days and you, you want to have sex with me?" she said..

"I'd want to have sex with you anytime....Come on, one last time...for old times sakes.."he said..

We both laughed.... and we both wound up in his bedroom...."

She went on to tell Nelson that they began kissing once they got inside his apartment and closed the door..

This is so you'll be comfortable.." he said and held her in his arms and kissed her passionately....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Ralph..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..No....I knew this was going to happen ..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Stop." she said as she gave in and kissed him more passionately than she had kissed a man in close to two years...

''Do you really want me to stop Bonnie......Do you?" he asked.

"No! Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu ,Nooooo" she said meekly..

She felt Ralph's hard and engorged erection...

"MY GOODNESS Ralph!! OUUUUUUUUUUU!" she said...

Soon she was rubbing it softly...

"Awww...Awwwwwwwwwwww.. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Bonnie....Ouuuuuuuuuuuu.."he moaned..

"Ralph you make me sick...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.I knew this was gonna happen..." she moaned...angry at herself for being so weak..

Soon their kisses were even more passionate....He slipped her panties down and off and soon they were on the bed...kissing and slobbering over each other and breathing heavy...
"Ouuu Ralph you make me sick.." she moaned...

He slowly entered into her and began breathing heavily...he slobbered all over her huge breasts and Bonnie began to move up and down on him...

 "Ummm Ralph...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu my goodness, ouuuuu you feel good..baby...Whooooooo Lawd Ralph...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu"she cooed..


"Ohhhhhhhhhh..awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!Bonnie, so do you..LAwd,so do you...I've missed you so much...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he moaned..


The bed began to move up and down, the headboard began to slam against the wall...

What followed was Six hours of hot sweaty and sweet lovemaking....Ralph felt as if he was losing his mind...So did Bonnie...


"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." he moaned...

He lifted Bonnie up and began to thrust inside of her mightily...

 ''Wooooooooooooooooo..what has gotten into you Ralph???..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu my lawddd....OOOOOU! OHH MY GOD! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"she squealed..

"I'm gonna miss you so much Bonnie..." he moaned..

"I'm going to miss you too!" she said, crying...

  Bonnie began to climax....She was shaking ,sweat and tears was running down her cheeks and Ralph himself began to climax....Harder than he had in a long while...

Within a few minutes they were both standing in the middle of the floor ,kissing passionately, Bonnie softly stroking his penis...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."he moaned..


''Ohhh Ralph...Okay...you got what you wanted....I'm leaving now...." she said..



"No..Don't go..Don't marry that clown Bonnie...Please..." he begged..

"It's way too late for that Ralph." she said.

"Is it? Is it Bonnie?" he said as they crashed unto the bed and began another round of hot steamy lovemaking...


"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu lawd We've got to stop..." she moaned.


"I can't..I can't get enough..." he moaned..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my goodness...wooooooooooooo...neither can I...Lawddddd!" she moaned..


The bed squeaked even harder and the headboard lightly slammed against the wall..


She couldn't believe it , but another Four Hours passed by...

She had spent the entire night with him...It was Early morning ,when she found herself hailing a cab and leaving...

Nelson was sweating.....

"Wow...That was...That was some story....So that's why you bolted from the wedding...The guilt of what you did?" asked Nelson....

She smiled..

"No.....I was being blackmailed....A day later...I received a letter in the mail and in it was a flash drive and on it was a recording of our entire night together....and a threat that if I went through with the wedding that Eddie Queen and whoever his lawyer was , would receive copies of it...and the press...I went right over to Ralph Jenkins apartment and he swore that he had nothing to do with it and that he would never do such a thing..." she said..

"You believe him?" asked Nelson...

"I do..." she said...

"I believe him too." said Nelson.




II-

At the final preliminary hearing for Eddie Queen , accused of murdering Ralph Jenkins....Olivia and Beverly put on a show trial...A lesson for young attorneys on how to run a case...

Olivia called all of the police, crime scene investigators and photographers at the scene and asked them the routine questions about the murder and the investigation...This was the basic facts of the case that most people knew..

Then she hit them with the big one..time of death....

All of them agreed that the estimated time of death was around a quarter to twelve...

"If Mr. Jenkins met his death at a quarter to twelve, my client couldn't have killed him...He was at Royal Hall as was Ms. Sheppard preparing to get married..I am a witness to that...I was there...I saw him." she stated...

Beverly called the state's eyewitness...Homer Jennings....He was listed as a "Hostile Witness "because he was testifying for the State...but he was anything but hostile...She gently showed him life size photos of herself, Olivia and Bonnie Sheppard and Stephanie Cullen...He couldn't tell one woman from the other...They all had on white dresses in each photo...

The Young ADA, Rhona Perry was out of her league...She objected , but the Judge allowed it....

Beverly presented his prescription for his glasses and the diagnosis that he is near sighted...

Olivia asked him at what time did he see the defendent, Eddie Queen come out of the apartment...

He stated that it was 2:00 pm....

"You told the police that it was quarter to one and you told us it was 1:15....." said Olivia ,producing written testimony....

The young ADA, a woman named Rhona Perry accused Olivia of badgering the witness...but the Judge once again allowed the questioning...

Olivia called her old nemesis, Lt. Tragg, the case Detective to the stand..

He walked up to the stand with a cocky smirk.. He had been on Television all week talking about the case, despite the ADA asking him not to...He came expecting a battle royal with Olivia and the press expected it too...

They didn't get it..

Olivia politely asked him if he and his men had found the murder weapon after searching the apartment and the sewers...

He said no....he wanted to say more...but Olivia cut him off....

She asked him if her clients fingerprints and or DNA was anywhere else in the apartment...

He was furious.. but he had to say no.....She had already asked every Forensic Investigator involved in the investigation the same question and they all said the same thing...She drove this point home to the jury....Much to Lt. Tragg's exasperation...

She dismissed him...He was expecting much more...

She finished her argument with the fact that...Her client was understandably upset that he wasn't getting married and he blamed her ex-boyfriend, but upon seeing that his romantic rival was dead.. He turned and left...He never entered the apartment and there was no proof that anything other than that had happened.


ADA Rhona Perry argued vigourously the other way, that something in fact did happen in that apartment.. and called for a recess.

The Judge agreed and called for a recess..

I met Olivia ,Beverly and Eddie in the hallway...

"You girls are doing great...I don't think this will go past the prelim...They don't have much of a case...I'm a ex-Homicide detective and I can tell you...I'd of been thrown out of the courthouse if I brought something this weak to an ADA..."I said.

"Oh the biggest surprise is yet to come." said Olivia..

"Yeah, Nelson and his client should be arriving here shortly.." said Bev,laughing...

Eddie Queen laughed his head off...

"After this case..Ole Lt. Tragg may be back at Penns Landing..."he laughed.

ADA Keith Wallace happened to be in the hallway....He was smiling....He walked over to us..

"Hello folks...Hello Mrs. Bennett -Alexander....Can I have a word?" he said.

"Sure.." said Olivia.

"You're like a schoolyard bully..." he laughed..

"What are you talking about?" asked Olivia.

"The ADA handling this case, Rhona Perry is new...

She used to be a public defender just like you...She's pretty good...But Livy, You're way above her pay grade..." he said laughing...

"This case is weak as hell.. and you know it Keith...And wasn't I a young public defender the first time I went up against you? And with far less experience than her mind you." said Olivia...

"Yeah and you got lucky...You won that one ,even though you should have lost it...I never forgot that...I made sure that if I ever went up against you again...I'd be prepared..."said Keith Wallace..

"Boy were you...We had some classic battles too... What are we, four to three your way?" asked Olivia..

"Yeah...Those were fun...You always brought out the best in me...I told Tragg to stay off the television, but you know how he is...Never saw a camera that didn't call his name....I told him to look for more evidence...He didn't do it...I saw his eye witness...That old man couldn't find a pair of panties in Victoria's Secret.." said Keith Wallace...

Olivia cracked up laughing.....

"Stopppp..Stopppp....You are insane..."she said laughing until her sides hurt..."Hang around for the next round...I'm going to solve Lt. Tragg's murder for him..."said Olivia..

I had gone back to that apartment and taken it apart and had found one thing...one thing that would make the difference in the case...I then had a very confidential conversation with Nelson...

that helped me figure out who the killer was!

III-

Nelson walked in with Bonnie Sheppard and Stephanie Cullen...

Olivia and Beverly had called them both as witnesses....Only it wasn't Bonnie that they had an interest in, it was Stephanie...

Beverly called Stephanie Cullen to the stand...She had a smirk on her face...



"Ms. Cullen....You didn't like Ralph Jenkins did you?" asked Beverly...



"No, I didn't...but what has this got to do with?" she said..


"Just answer the question please" said Beverly....


Stephanie bristled at being talked to like that.



"You didn't like Eddie Queen either did you?" she asked..



"No.. Not particularly..." she said...Staring daggers at Olivia and Beverly...

Olivia asked her...

"You ever been in Ralph Jenkins's apartment?" asked Olivia...

"Uh yeah, once with uh my girl, Bonnie, on her uh wedding day..." said Stephanie..

"You're under oath don't forget.....You've been there more than once...in fact...You were there quite a few times.. weren't you?" asked Olivia..

"Huh, What has me being there got to do with this?" she asked..

"Just answer the question." said the Judge..

Stephanie didn't like this...She felt like she was being tag teamed by Olivia and Beverly, who she had never cared for....She had always felt as though they looked down on her and wanted to take Bonnie from her...She was jealous of everybody who Bonnie paid attention to more than or as much as her...All of Bonnie's other girlfriend's despised her I learned , but were afraid of her acid tongue and sour disposition..

Beverly directed the jury to the 48 inch monitor ,which had Street cam footage that was timed and dated of Stephanie Cullen coming and going from Ralph Jenkins apartment in the weeks before he died several times...Going in at 7:00 pm, leaving at 6:00 am...

"You were sleeping with Ralph Jenkins weren't you?   Behind Bonnie's back.....Weren't you?" asked Beverly...

"Wha...I-I-I...Uh... Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...Well...YESSSSSSSSS!...YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!" she said. The question had caught her off guard...The revelation and the look of pure shock on her best friend, Bonnie's face...broke her heart....

"But you said you didn't like him....You were sleeping with him to get revenge...He was your man first wasn't he?? That's how you found out your old friend, Bonnie was back in town...after the few years you had been apart...She was your ticket to a better job and out of the strip club right??? Only ,you never figured on your MAN wanting your best friend and throwing you aside did you?" said Olivia..

Remember...I said that a few drinks, a couple of sandwiches and lightweight conversation can get you a lot of information.. I found all of this out from wedding guests who knew both girls..

I looked over at the Young ADA....Rhona Perry. She was fascinated at how Olivia and Beverly worked like a machine.. She didn't object or say a word...She actually smiled...She was enjoying hearing all of the dirt that was now coming out...

"Our Investigator found this...and one of the detectives on the case told us that they found several of them around the apartment...Your fingerprints are on all of them...."she said.. Then she produced a bill of sale.. It was a micro-camera...


"You purchased these didn't you?" asked Beverly.


"Yes." she said.


"What was that?" asked Beverly...


"YES!" she snarled..

"You purchased these with your MasterCard ....This is your charge bill...You placed these all over Ralph's apartment...See you're so jealous and controlling you needed to know who he was sleeping with...When you caught him sleeping with your girl...You saw a way to get Eddie Queen, who you despised out of the picture...and checkmate Ralph....by making her think that he was blackmailing her.. Only he caught on didn't he?  He must've figured out it was you and threatened to tell...That's why you killed him before the wedding...That's why...you stole the hard-drive out of his computer...In case he tried to email her...That is why Mr. Jennings saw you leaving the building an hour before the wedding...He had just got the time mixed up...But the street cam video bares him out..."said Beverly.. Beverly was enjoying the bit of payback she was getting by gutting Stephanie like this...

The woman with the acid tongue and disposition who terrified so many had little to say now...Our client Eddie Queen was enjoying every minute of it.. He despised Stephanie.. You would have thought his team was winning the Superbowl... In a sense...It was!

Stephanie was crying profusely now...

"I suggest you not say anymore Ms. Cullen...Get yourself an attorney , you're going to need one.." said Olivia.. Who admitted to me later that at that point, she felt a tinge of sympathy for Stephanie..



The Young ADA, Rhona Perry addressed the Judge...

"In Light of this new information and lack of evidence against Mr. Queen...The people dismiss all charges against him.. He's free to go....." she said.

Eddie Queen leaped up ...

"YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!  I'M INNOCENT...THANK YOU LIVY! THANK YOU BEV!!" he bellowed..

The three of us smiled...

Lt. Tragg , thoroughly embarrassed slipped passed the press....The Prosecution of Eddie Queen was supposed to be his O.J. Moment and instead it was a major embarrassment to both him and the department, which was being accused of a rush to judgement... His first case after being back and already he had embarrassed himself and the department...


Reporters were having a field day...


"So Tell Us Lieutenant...Will you be making anymore celebrity arrests?"


Which was greeted by raucous laughing...


"Alright Guys.. Put a sock in it okay?" he said.


"Hey Columbo...Next time, hire the lawyer to solve your case.." said Another reporter...


More Laughter....


Lieutenant Tragg stomped his foot and stormed out of the courthouse.. Got in his car and sped off...



Stephanie Cullen was taken into custody, crying profusely...

ADA Keith Wallace chuckled......

"Nicely done Olivia!!....Nicely done...I love watching you work....A lot more than I do going up against you.." he said, still laughing...

"Coming from you....That is a compliment..." laughed Olivia..

She looked at me...

"You really went all out on this one husband of mine....Whewwww...Thank you again." she said..

"You can thank me later...Tonight in bed!..."I said.

"Ouuuuuuuuuuu ,that's one payment, I won't mind making...."she said and kissed me .

"Ummmmmmmmmm yes baby." I said..

"I'll thank you now....I've got to go and try to find my boyfriend..."said Beverly kissing me on the cheek.

Eddie Queen and Bonnie Sheppard were kissing passionately in the hallway..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Eddie...I'm so sorry..." she said in between wet and sloppy kisses..

"Let's not talk about it...Let's get to that justice of the peace before 5:00 pm...ummmmm..." he moaned..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Eddie, we can get married tomorrow morning, let's just go make sweet love at your place tonight..ouuuuuuuuuuuuu..." she moaned..

"Looks like the wedding is back on.."I said..

"The honeymoon is ,at least.." said Olivia...

We both cracked up...

EPILOUGE-

Eddie Queen and Bonnie Sheppard were married later on that same day....They swiftly left for Atlantic City to enjoy their honeymoon...

Stephanie Cullen was charged with Manslaughter and convicted and sentenced to 10-15 years in state Prison. She writes Bonnie often, apologizing...Bonnie never writes back...

A week or two later, I treated the girls to dinner and drinks at that same Tony Bistro, Nelson had met Bonnie Sheppard in to talk...

"Donnie Ray, this place is so nice...and the food is off the chain..." said Olivia..

"Isn't it though?" I said.

"Nelson and I came here a month ago.. I thought you two would like it.." said Beverly...

"Speak of the devil...Here he is." said Olivia..

"Hey guys..." he said and sat down...

"I know you're glad that trial is over huh?" I asked..

"Awww...It wasn't like I wasn't speaking to him...We just weren't talking about work...I actually liked it.. Not talking about a case or a deposition or strategy.." said Beverly...

"Speaking of which...Are you going to be representing Stephanie?" asked Olivia..

"No...She fired me right after the trial..." said Nelson...

 Beverly turned her head...She didn't want Nelson to see her laughing...

Olivia tried to keep a poker face, but she couldn't...She smiled...and held her head down...

"Hey man...it was for the best.....She wasn't a good client.." I said.

"Damn Donnie Ray...That's the best you got?" asked Nelson...

Olivia and Beverly were both laughing hysterically now......

''Alright man...your meal is on me." I said.