The Mysterious Case of Robin Tolliver ,Part 2

Monday Morning found us back in the office and ready to see our new client....Mrs. Robin Tolliver..

Josie had no sooner finished passing Olivia, Beverly and I our morning coffees when the doorbell rung..It was Mrs. Tolliver..

"I'll get that." said Josie..

"Wow...She's on time." said Beverly...

"I like punctuality!" said Olivia smiling..

I had to admit..I did myself...

It was Robin Tolliver...She was a math teacher...Very punctual and surprisingly,like my wife...Very thorough...

She had a small brief case and in it were police reports or copies she had made ,which she passed to me..

Two glossy photos of her husband, Claude Louis Tolliver in life and a photo of his body in death, where he was found shot to death...

She had ballistic reports, Autopsy report...The works... I had very little to do...She had done my beginning work for me...She even had two witnesses and their addresses...

I was impressed..

"Claude Tolliver is your husband? Or Was your husband?? The Photographer??" asked Olivia...

"Yes....You've heard of him no doubt.."said Robin...

''Yes...I've known him for years....When I was in law school, I modeled for awhile...I'd take the train to New York City on weekends and do photo shoots...He always made me feel comfortable..Just recently I had done a photo shoot with him for an article being done on me...He was a very nice man...I'll miss him dearly..." said Olivia...

"He was a prince of a man...I -I, well , about a year ago...We started having marital problems....I suspected he was seeing another woman Mrs. Alexander, Ms. West..." said Robin...

"What made you think that?" asked Beverly..

"I found things around the house...in our bedroom that I didn't buy...For instance, a very expensive fragrance that I don't use...for one thing...He said he didn't know where it came from and well,...very expensive and alluring panties and bras....Mrs. Alexander , Ms. West...You can tell I'm very frugal....I buy my panties...Three to a pack from Target or Kohls..These were from Victoria's Secret...Lady Chatterlies Lover,places I hardly ever do more than window shop in...They weren't mine ....I questioned him and he swore he didn't purchase them or have another woman in the house..and yet I found clothes in my closet that didn't belong to me, but were my size....I suggested we go to marriage counseling...He said I was crazy..." she explained..

''Where does your brother come in?" asked Olivia...

"I told him about it...He's very protective of me...He confronted Claude about it...Claude assured him that he was not cheating on me...We hired a Private Detective who followed Claude 24/7...and the private investigator could not find a single thing, not a single instance where Claude was cheating...Claude went to work, He went to the bar, he came home...." said Robin...

''So he wasn't cheating?" I asked..

"It didn't look like it and he certainly didn't act like it...He -He couldn't keep his hands off of me..He-He wanted it all the time, around the clock...So then I figured it must be her, Janelle ,Janelle Stevens...She was breaking into my house and planting these things...to break up our marriage..." said Robin...

"Who is Janelle?" asked Beverly.

''She is a terrible woman...We've known each other since we were children...At one time, we were like sisters....We are about the same height and weight...Same build...People used to say we were identical twins..But she's a jealous woman..Very Jealous...Always wanted what was mine...Always....I went to college and excelled...She dropped out...I married a good man...She never married...She wanted my husband and she was planting her panties and bras and fragrances and things in my house to drive a wedge between me and Claude...Now he's dead and my brother has been charged with murder...and I know he didn't do it..He didn't do it.." she cried..

"This police report says he was seen leaving the scene of the crime..."I said.

"His fingerprints and an unidentified set of prints were found in that apartment.."said Beverly..

''Yes ,I know and whoever those unidentified prints belong to....That's the killer...My brother loves me to death and he could sometimes be a pain in the ass, take things too far...but he's no killer..."said Robin Tolliver..

"Beverly's  father...My Big Brother was like that...Chased every boy away that came sniffing around...It was only the boys who stood up to him ,and there weren't many who got to stay..."laughed Olivia..

"How bout your husband?" asked Robin Tolliver, slyly sizing me up and smiling salaciously at me..

"Oh he loves him.....He gives my niece hell about her boyfriends....He has kind of eased up now though....I think he realizes that his daughter is a grown woman now...."laughed Olivia..

Something about the way Robin Tolliver was looking at me kind of gave me the creeps for a minute...It was as if she was someone else..Someone altogether different..

Gave me a cold chill...

Robin Tolliver looked around our office....

"Nice place you have here..So you and your Niece are the Attorneys and Your Husband is your investigator huh?" she asked..

"Yes...."said Olivia..

"And you all live here too ,huh? Nice...I imagine with the low overhead, this works very well for you Mrs. Alexander.."she said..

"Yes, it works for us.."said Olivia..

"What about the other fellow?  Your boyfriend?" she asked Beverly...

"He's an Attorney too, but he doesn't work for us...He's with another firm..."said Beverly smiling...

"I'll bet you rock his world....I saw the way he looked at you the other day in the club...Ummmph....Same way Mr. Alexander looks at his wife...I noticed it...Like he wanted to eat her up!!!"she said...

Right then,I got that creepy feeling that I was talking to someone else...

Beverly,Olivia and Josie all got the same vibe....Then just like that, Robin Tolliver got an almost shocked look, an embarrassed look on her face..

"Oh My God, forgive me...I-I was talking quite crudely....I am so sorry.....It's just that I miss my husband so.." she said and started to tear up...

"That's quite alright...I understand and now you go on home....We are going to go and visit your brother...Perhaps I can get a bail hearing for him..."said Olivia..

"Thank you so much Mr and Mrs. Alexander and Ms. West...Anything you can do for me will be greatly appreciated." she said  and walked out of the Office..

II-

After Robin Tolliver left the office...I looked at the girls..

"What do you think?" I asked..

''We've had cases just as tough.."said Olivia.

"She seems like a sweet woman, a bit of a prude, but a sweet woman and yet,for a second I got the feeling there was more to her than meets the eye..."said Beverly...

"Yeah ,me too!" I said..

''For a second...just a little bit, it felt like I was talking to a whole different person, but just for a minute..." said Olivia..

"So it wasn't just me.."I said, relieved...

"No, it was eerie..It was like the temperature changed around her...and her whole persona was different for a split second..."said Josie...

"Regardlesss, we have our work cut out for us...We have to visit him and see if we can get a bail hearing..He's been charged with Second Degree Murder..Not First.."said Olivia..

I peered at the crime scene photos, Claude Tolliver had been shot twice in the back with a .38 smokeless...No gun had been found at the crime scene or in the entire area...

When arrested , Louis Young had no powder burns on his hands or clothes...Hmmm that was something the defense could hang on to...

I wonder if he had walked in on the actual murder or the aftermath and decided to get the hell out of the apartment..and whose apartment was it?

That was easy...It was registered to Janelle Stevens...

Beverly brought me something...It was a record of payments and some cashed check stubs...

"Auntay, Donnie Ray look at this..." she said..

"It's cashed check stubs.."said Olivia..

"Look whose name is on the checks...Claude and Robin Tolliver...It's their joint account.."said Beverly...

"What? He was paying for her to stay in that apartment?  Hmmmm maybe he was having an affair with her.." I said.

"Maybe you better talk to that Private Detective.." said Olivia..

"Yes and check out that Apartment..."I said..

"Come on Bev, we've got to check out some Lingerie stores..." said Olivia...

"Lingerie stores...??" I asked.

"Yes..I want to know if the late Mr. Tolliver bought any panties and bras for someone.."said Olivia...

"Good idea Auntay..."said Beverly , who looked at me and whispered.."She might buy something nice for you to see tonight.." and smiled..

I laughed...

"Oh before we go.." said Olivia...she walked over to me and gave me a soft kiss..

"Don't forget about your baby.."she said.

"Never that." I said.

III-

I began doing a little digging...Into our client...Mrs. Robin Tolliver...She was born, Robin Young....The Youngest of two...Her Brother Louis was older by six years...

She was brilliant...She excelled in her studies and glided through Elementary and middle school ,getting skipped twice...Like Olivia and Beverly, she attended Girls High...She was seven years older than Olivia and six years my senior...She didn't look it though...She became one of the youngest graduates ever, graduating at 16 and going to M.I.T. on a full paid Scholarship...She graduated at 20 and lived in Boston for awhile ,where she reportedly had a nervous breakdown...Her brother brought her home to Philadelphia ,where she was treated by a Doctor Gerald Keating..Who I was going to look up...

She got a job teaching Math ,first in the High School and then at Community College and now at Temple University...

She was reportedly pregnant twice and both times had abortions...She married photographer, Claude Tolliver, a man ten years her senior..

A close look at him showed basically a normal guy who attended and graduated from the Philadelphia School System...Attended and Graduated from Johnson C.Smith with a degree in Radio and Television Communications..Worked at a few radio stations and television stations in the south and supplemented his income with freelance photography jobs...

He returned to Philadelphia where he met and fell in love with the demure and quiet Robin Young..

I talked to his family and friends and co-workers....Nobody had ever heard him mention any Janelle Stevens.

He was not known to play around...No one I talked to said that...

So Now I had to inquire about her..

The first problem came here... There was no records of any Janelle Stevens anywhere to be found...Robin said they had known each other since they were kids and that the neighbors said they were twins...Yet the neighbors I talked to in her old neighborhood didn't remember her...There were no school records of her anywhere...There was no Stevens family living on her block...I even checked Foster care for any record of her ...Nothing...No Birth certificates anywhere..

Robin said this Janelle Stevens attended and dropped out of college... M.I.T. had no record of her...Nor Johnson C. Smith...Nor any of the State colleges or local city colleges and universities.

There was no social security number or passport either and yet....No record of employment anywhere either..

Somebody was living in an apartment complex under that name and had been living there for months...Six months to be exact...

IV-

Olivia and Beverly met me at the apartment complex where Claude Tolliver was murdered...The landlord let us into the room...

"Ms. Stevens is in and out.." he said..

"So you've seen her?" asked Olivia..

"Yeah...She pays her rent on time every month.."he said..

''She always pays by check?" asked Beverly...

"Yeah...Sometimes by credit card..."he said.

"You got any credit card receipts?" I asked..

"Yeah...I'll go and get them..." he said.

He was only letting us in because he thought I was a cop, even though I was sure I never said I was...

We looked around her apartment..There were clothes strewn all over the place and the sink was full of dishes..

 "Look Bev,Lingerie, Panties and Bras from Victoria's Secret and Bridget's stores....I have a pair like these.."said Olivia..

"This is her place..." said Beverly...

"Not one photo...."I mused... "Hey what did you find out?"I asked..

"We went to Victoria's Secret and Lady Chatterlies Lover,Panties and Bras for the discriminating woman..Her purchases were paid for by checks...Checks belonging to Claude and Robin Tolliver.."said Olivia..

"Did you talk to the P.I.? " asked Beverly...

"I did..He followed Claude everywhere...He ate Breakfast at Sam Mother's Diner alone, At Mabel Jenkins Soul Food Joint with males and females...Mostly friends and people he worked with...He went to work at the studio....He even knew about your photo shoot last month...and he went home...The man was not cheating...He had no time to.."I said..

"Maybe this Janelle person was coming to his house..." said Beverly...

"No, he said nobody was coming to the house...The only woman he ever saw at that house was Mrs. Tolliver. He did say that she would come and go at different hours and in different clothes than what she came in and come back in an Uber or Lfyt...He said near the end...He was wondering if she was the one who was cheating.."I said.

"Something strange is going on here...We have some questions to ask her..."said Olivia..

"Meanwhile we have to go and see the brother tomorrow...Maybe he can clear some things up..."I said...

The landlord came back with the credit card receipts...They read Robin Tolliver! 

"This is Robin Tolliver's Mastercard...This other one was paid by her Visa. Why would she be paying for her rival to stay in this apartment...??Or was her husband sneaking her credit card out?" I asked.

"No..She'd surely know about that....She did say that she and Janelle had been friends once...She obviously left something out of the story...Something strange is going on here..."said Olivia..

"I'll say.."said Beverly..

V-

And on the other side of town...The man named Johnny put his key in the door of his loft..

Janelle Stevens was licking a lolipop..

"Ouuu daddy where you been?" she asked salaciously...

"Janelle...Where have YOU been? You weren't at your place..Cause I went there..Landlord told me some Lawyers and a Private Investigator paid you a visit.. Are you in trouble? The cops cleared you didn't they ?Of the Tolliver murder?" he asked..

"They questioned me and let me go...That Damn Robin probably told em that I had something to do with it.."she said..

"Robin?? His wife...??? Damn..I wish I knew he had a wife.."said Johnny...

"Well now you do...Forget about it..They got somebody in jail for it...Aint no cops lookin for me.."said Janelle..

''Well where you been, I called you..You didn't answer and I texted you..."said Johnny...

"Johnny look at all this...You wanna worry about where I been or do you want to get on this and work it out?" she asked as she slipped her panties off...and tossed them to him...

''Awwww lawddddd." he moaned..

They embraced in the middle of the floor...and began kissing each other passionately.....
''Ouuuuuu Johnny...I can feel that hard thing in your pants..."she cooed...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Janelle...you drive me crazy" he said...

"I know I do daddy!" she said....

She unbuckled his trousers and he hurriedly got out of them and his socks and shoes...He slipped his shirt off and leaned down and kissed her some more...He took her into his arms and she began to softly fondle what was becoming a raging erection at this point..

''Myy..Myyy ..Myyy...Somebody really missed meeeeee todayyyy..." she cooed..

Soon he had her on the bed...just hungrillly trying to place her nice sized breasts in his mouth...

"Ummmmph. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!", he moaned...

She giggled..

He liked her giggle, it, like her was cute...

 Johnny entered Janelle softly and gently and began to stroke her softly and slowly....She moaned and put her arms around his neck and drew him closer to her..She wrapped her legs around his waste and they began to move in a slow, yet deliberate rhythm for quite some time...She matched him thrust for thrust and even licked his neck at one point...She was so soft...so moist and smelled so good...Johnny thought he was losing his mind slowly....while continuing to stroke her masterfully....She kissed his neck, his nose, his forehead and his ears...and playfully sucked on his cheek,while he continued to move in and out of her at an even more rapid pace..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY Godddddddddddddddddd."he moaned...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Johnny....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....Ohhhhhhh you are driving me crazyyyyyyyyyyyy.." she wailed...And he was...

  They made sweet passionate and intense love for the next SIX TO SEVEN HOURS... Janelle felt as though she was climaxing several times....then in a huge wave....Johnny climaxed furiously and hard....not yelling , but shaking mightily.....then taking a deep breath and collapsing on top of Janelle....drenched in sweat....Janelle looked up at Johnny and gave him a juicy and wet kiss....

Johnny surprisingly felt himself getting hard again after a few minutes...and began to move slowly inside and out of her again........

"Ohh myyy...Ohhhhhhhhhh I'm delightfully surprised...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu jesus..." came a strange voice ,Johnny thought...It was if she was a completely different woman..."Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh I like this..I like what you are doing to me...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..MYYYYYYYY  WORDD!!" came the voice..

He stared into her face again and it was if her body temperature changed...She felt cold...but now she was laughing loudly...

 She began to shake and gyrate and tears began to stream down her face....ANOTHER THREE HOURS seemed to glide by...She had climaxed multiple times...This man was more than she had expected...Wayy more!!!

"Ohhhhhh my Goddddd, OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDDD, It's sooooooooooooooo goooddd...Oh my godddddddddddddd it's soooooo gooood! "she moaned... "OUUUUUUUU! 'OHHHH MY GODDD JOHNNY, DON'T STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! WORK ME, WORK ME DADDY!!!,WORK ME LIKE A DAMN JOB!!! WOUUUUUU!" she yelled...she hadn't come like this in quite awhile..   That was more like it ,he thought!

 The bed rocked back and forth...and finally Janelle came like she had never come before.....
"LAWD!" she yelled and then fell back...This wasn't supposed to happen either...

Johnny  finally came and came furiously.....shaking and breathing heavy and holding Janelle tight...He didn't think anybody could rock his world the way Janelle could..but this woman right here had indeed!

  Janelle had the most serene look on her face when she climaxed...She smiled at Johnny...Kissed him again  for awhile and then watched him drift off to sleep...

She showered, dressed and then called an Uber and then headed for her apartment......

 She was sleepy...She needed her sleep!  She was a little wired from all of the good sex...So she washed and dried all of the dishes...picked up ,folded and hung up all of the clothes...and then she vaccumed...

An hour passed by...She looked at her now clean apartment...

"Hmmph, Some lawyers and a P.I. came here...They probably think I keep a dirty  house...Well it's clean now....That damn Robin probably sent em...I'm going to have to kill her!" she said...Then she went and laid down on the sofa and drifted off to sleep...

There was a full moon out tonight and it was indeed foreboding..

(TO BE CONTINUED)