What About The Money?

I was certain that Bob Big Butt Thornton, safely locked away in Maximum security Flintlock State Prison and Cyrus Tickle, hiding somewhere in Philadelphia was certain I was dead by now...

Now, It was known that Mr. Tickle had once again escaped...  He was now on the FBI's ten most wanted list and an international manhunt was on for him...  He had hoped to have money wired to his account in the Cayman Islands and to slip out of the country before anybody realized he had escaped from prison...My prison visit had foiled that for him...That and the fact that I hadn't given him a penny really stuck in his craw...

He was furious....

We had found his relay station at the address, Jack Sweeney had given me...An address I knew Mr. Tickle wasn't staying at...

In an apartment building, rented out under the name...Jerome Sweeney.. We destroyed the relay station...Now we could track his calls in real time and there would be no relay to the prison...

I knew Tickle was smart enough to ditch his phone....but I also knew that somebody at that prison...Namely, Bob "Big Butt" Thornton had a contraband phone too...

We caught a number coming from Philadelphia to the prison.....It was Mr. Tickle calling Bob "Big Butt" Thornton...Due to the time of night, we knew that all of the prisoners were on lockdown and the prison itself was closed to visitors..So it had to be a contraband call.

"Well?" asked Bob "Big Butt "Thornton...

"I'm pretty sure he's dead by now.."said Mr. Tickle..

"He was up here a day and a half ago...and he looked fit as a fiddle...Are you sure?" asked Bob "Big Butt"Thornton...

"He has to be...The side effects just kicked in late that's all...or he was heavily medicated and bluffing.."said Mr. Tickle..

"One thing I know about Kevin Morris...He don't bluff...He's the real deal...He'd have to be to take me down.."said Bob Big Butt Thornton...

"Oh Really? Take you down? HA!   It's not like he was dealing with a criminal mastermind...You were no more than a drug peddler..." scoffed Mr. Tickle..

"And you? What were you? A shyster lawyer who got disbarred and became a cheap con-man...?" scoffed Bob "Big Butt" Thornton- "Let me remind you of something Tickle...You promised me 2 million dollars...on my books and I haven't seen a penny of it...That man, Jenkins... I sent to you is loyal to me...What about the money? Did Morris wire it into your account before he died?" asked Bob Big Butt Thornton..

"No!  He wouldn't budge....But I can find his wife and baby...They can't hide forever and torture it out of them..."said Tickle.. "I've got your man,Jenkins looking for them now.!" he said..

"You cheap punk....I should have never dealt with you and this half baked scheme of yours anyway...Morris is alive...My guy Jenkins already confirmed it...He's been seen...but still no sign of his wife or his kid.."said Bob "Big Butt" Thornton.

"Jenkins is a liar...He didn't see anything...I'm telling you...Morris is dead..I'll find Mrs. Morris and that baby...They can't hide forever....You'll have the money on your books as planned...I assure you..." said Mr. Tickle.

"How you gonna do that?  If Morris is alive...Chances are his people are hiding the wife ad the baby..." said Bob "Big Butt" Thornton..

"Maybe your guy will get lucky and grab all three of them if Morris is indeed alive...Which I'm sure he isn't.."said Mr. Tickle...

"I don't care if Morris is alive or not...I just want my money...."screamed Bob "Big Butt" Thornton..who hung up...

 

Me, Sean Jackson, Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson, Owen Todd, Clerow and the five new investigators sat around laughing in the basement headquarters of Morris Investigations...

The next morning... "Looks like our boys don't trust each other.." I said...

Clerow looked at his watch...

"Boss, I took Kimberly over to Bonita and Robert Foxworth's house like you asked...and Sepia is at the hotel....You ready to go?" he asked..

"Yes sirrrr." I said..  "Guys stay on that phone.." I said...

"We're on it Kev...We should have a location locked in soon..." said Peeping Tom...

"Good..but not too soon, you know what I'm sayin?" I joked.

They all laughed..

II-

I hadn't been with Sepia since the beginning of the week...and we were missing each other terribly.....

We had Kimmy taken over to Bonita's house and Sepia and I met up at a Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey of all places...far from the action...

"Get in here and get your clothes off." said Sepia as I came to the door..

"Yes Mam!" I said, smiling and taking my shoes and socks off, My trousers and shirt....

We kissed passionately....

"Ouuuuu,I missed you so much..."Sepia said.

"I missed you too baby."I said as we embraced in the middle of the floor....Kissing and fondling each other like crazy...

Soon we were in bed, making sweet love....

This bed made as much if not more noise than our bed at home.. The bed squeaked and was very loud....The headboard slammed against the wall and I was louder than usual...
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, oUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...SEPIA, LOVE YOU!!" I moaned...

"I know you do!!!!!....I love you tooo, ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"she cooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed out in passion!She felt so good...so warm, so moist, so soft.....

"Kevin Please...The people in the room next door can hear us...It's not that good..." she said, embarrassed at the noise both the bed and I was making...bad enough the bed was squeaking so loud and the headboard was about to fall off....

"Who you tellin ,it's not that good..??Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmph!  OH LORD!!!!!" I cried out..

Sepia giggled....

 "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Kevin....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..." she cooed.

"I've never felt this good in MY LIFE!!! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed.....

"Liar...you tell me that the everytime we make love.."laughed Sepia..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lawwwwwwwwwwwwd ,because IT IS TRUEEEEE!" I moaned..

"Kevin please...hush up all that noise,.." she laughed...but happy we were together, I was alive and making sweet love to her...

SIX  TO SEVEN HOURS of sweet lovemaking  passed by slowly...

I came so hard, I thought I was going to go blind...

It wasn't just me, Sepia came hard too..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu myyy goodness...WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! KEVIN...I LOVE YOU!!!
" she wailed..

"I LOVE YOU TOO!!!!!" I heard myself yelling....

 Sepia came and came hard....her body shaking, sweat and tears running down the side of her face......She fell asleep in my arms...still slightly stroking my penis...I came again while she was doing this..She was feeling things she'd never felt before...she would tell me later...

Sepia woke up....She kissed the head of my penis and licked it and then took all of me in her mouth and began going up and down...I was hard again....

An HOUR AND A HALF of this was all I could stand....I exploded like a gusher....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu look at you!" she laughed...

"I love you Sepia.." I said once more..

"I love you too Kevin!" she whispered to me.....and kissed me again.....We kissed like it was going out of style...

We were really making up for lost time ,I found myself hard again and rolled on top of Sepia...

"Oh My god....KEVIN! OUUUUUUU!" she exclaimed as I entered her again...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I moaned...

"My goodness Kevin, you really missed me, didn't you?..." she said, laughing....

"What do you think?" I moaned..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...yessssssssssssss....yesssssssssssssssss, yes you did...Oh my god!" she moaned....


We began making love again....THREE   TO FOUR HOURS LATER....Sepia and I came and came together furiously...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" we both moaned in unison.......Sweating profusely and holding each other..

I was out of breath and hanging over the bed....completely destroyed.....

Sepia fell asleep between my legs... We were both spent...but now my mind was on other things...

Philadelphia and checkmating once and for all....Mr. Tickle!

III-

The next morning Sepia and I kissed passionately in the doorway...I didn't want to let her go, she didn't want to let me go either....

"So I'm to go to this other hotel...right? And wait for you there..." said Sepia..

"Right and I promise you Sepia...This is the last of this cloak and dagger crap...Mr. Tickle will be in custody or dead before the sun sets..."I said..

"You gonna come to the new hotel and make love to me like you did last night?" she whispered in my ear...

"Most definitely....Hopefully ,we'll be going home." I said..

We kissed again and I waved goodbye to her...

I got a call on my smartphone....It was Kool Kat...

"What's shaking big man?" I asked..

"That guy that was looking for Bad girl and little missus won't be bothering you anymore.."laughed Kool Kat..

"You found him?" I asked..

"I put some feelers out...Roscoe Wallace found him, Turns out he's an associate of Bob "Big Butt "Thornton, just got out of prison, Imagine That?...Roscoe and I tried to reason with him, but ahhhh, well he wasn't the reasoning type if you get my drift...He even tried to flex.....Bad mistake." said Kool Kat...

I didn't need to ask anymore...

The bullet riddled body of Bob "Big Butt" Thornton's would be hitman....Randy Jenkins...was found on the New Jersey interstate...early in the morning...

No more needed to be said....

"Thank You Walter"I said...

"Not a problem Kev...I'll get at you later..." said Kool Kat..

While back at Morris Investigations...We picked up something else on the line....a call from the prison to the number we were tracking..

"Hello.."said Mr. Tickle..

"Have you found Mrs. Morris yet?" asked Bob "Big Butt" Thornton...

"No...but like I said...She's got to turn up soon...She has a business to run, funeral arrangements to make.."said Mr. Tickle..

"You know what I think? I think Morris is still alive..I think your goofy plan failed.. And something else Tickle...Morris told me that my friend, Harry Pockets was dead, the last time he was here..Now the cops didn't kill him..He wasn't on their radar and Pockets was paying Kevin Morris....So Morris didn't do it..Which leaves only one other person....YOU? Did you kill Harry Pockets?" asked Bob"Big Butt" Thornton...

There was silence...Then Mr. Tickle cleared his throat...

''A very interesting man named Collie Raleigh got in touch with me through a certain Attorney, A.J. Miller..He offered me two million dollars for the location of one Harry Pockets...It was two million dollars worth of a reason to give up his whereabouts..."said Mr. Tickle..

"You lousy backstabbing chisler.."said Bob "Big Butt" Thornton...

"Ohhhhh,I told Mr. Pockets to expect him....Maybe about five minutes before Mr. Raleigh arrived...Apparently , those two boys killed each other....I did give Mr. Pockets a fair chance."said Mr.Tickle..

"And you pocketed the two million right?" asked Bob "Big Butt" Thornton...

"Yes and A.J. Miller pocketed a million dollar finder's fee...Apparently, he really wanted a meeting with Mr. Pockets."laughed Mr. Tickle..

"And I haven't seen a penny on my books.."snarled Bob "Big Butt" Thornton....

"And you know what?  You aren't....I've decided to cut my losses...I have two million dollars in my Cayman Island Account...Morris is dead, and tonight...I'll be catching a flight out of Philly for places unknown...I'm afraid our little business deal is done..."said Mr. Tickle..

"TICKLE!!!!  I'LL KILL YOU!!" screamed Bob "Big Butt" Thornton...

"Very Hard to do ,locked up in a Maximum Security Prison...Good Bye Mr. Thornton..Oh and your boy, Randy Jenkins....They found his body in New Jersey on the interstate...I had nothing to do with that!!...Apparently he got himself in trouble that was unrelated..." said Mr. Tickle..

"TICKLE!!! YOU BACKSTABBING CHISLER!!! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN GOTDAMNIT!" screamed Bob "Big Butt" Thornton...

Peeping Tom smiled and looked at me...

"Got it!  We know where Mr. Tickle is..." he said.

I smiled..

"Call Mr. Jones...He'll be pleased to know this.."I said.



IV-

And in a Tony loft...  A bed was squeaking loudly and the headboard was slamming hard against the wall...

Cyrus Tickle and a young woman he had arranged to have sent to his loft were in the throes of passion...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu " she moaned..

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWWD Girl...ummmmmmmmmmmmmph" he moaned himself...

The bed sounded as if it was going to come apart.....

They had been making hot ,sweaty love for the past FOUR TO FIVE HOURS!

For an older man, he certainly had a lot of stamina ,thought the young woman, who found herself cumming and cumming hard.......


"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she moaned loudly...as she came and came hard...Shaking and sweating and nearly crying....This wasn't work...this was fun....Plus he paid her $1000.00 up front...

The beautiful young girl was gasping for air...

"Ouuuuu Mister Tickle...That was ..That was incredible..." she sighed...

Mr. Tickle got out of the bed and smiled.. They had made love for close to FIVE HOURS..

"I'm glad you enjoyed yourself baby..." he said, smiling sheepishly....He was near exhausted after five hours of making love to this woman...He slipped on his boxers , his trousers and his shirt...He slipped into some sandals...

His bags were packed....He was prepared to leave....He looked at her...

"Baby, you got to go....I know I was good...but you can't stay here.." he said..

She smiled..

"Lonnie is coming to pick me up.." she said..

"Who is Lonnie..?" he asked..

The door opened and a tall Black man with Aviator shades..A white t shirt, Black slacks and Black skippers appeared in the door..

"That's Lonnie ,Sweetie.." she said, laughing...

He had a gun with a silencer ...

Mr Tickle looked stunned...

"WHAT? WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?"he said.

"This is a set up...Bob Big Butt Thornton sends his regards sweetie." she said,laughing...

The first surprise she got was that Lonnie shot her between the eyes!!!...Killing her instantly...!!!

"Broad talks too damn much...She wasn't supposed to drop names. but since she did..Yeah Big Butt sends his regards!"said Lonnie Johnson, a remorseless and sadistic killer ,recently released from prison...Who it was said had killed 20 men...

A shocked ,Mr. Tickle turned to run, he was shot in both buttocks...

''Where you goin? Where you goin huh?" said Lonnie Johnson, who enjoyed seeing his victim run and or plead for their life...

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LAWDDDD, I've been shot!!...I don't believe it...I've been shot...I've been shot in the ass!!!...AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"he screamed..

Lonnie Johnson laughed////

Mr. Tickle went to pull out his pistol from the dresser drawer, but Lonnie shot him in both legs..

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww lawdddddddddddddd jesussssssssss!!" he moaned....

Lonnie then shot him in the side..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, you son of a bitch!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" he moaned and fell to the floor with a thud!!!..

Lonnie smiled..

"Mr. Thornton's instructions was to make your death painful." he said..

Mr.Tickle snarled defiantly at him..

"Well come on with it ,ya bastard!" he said...

Lonnie Johnson never saw a .357 magnum aimed at his head...

The explosion of the shot, shook the room and blew his brains out and sent him falling to the floor...Dead before he hit the ground! He never knew what hit him!!! Mr. Tickle had closed his eyes ,so he never saw the shooter...

Mr. Tickle opened his eyes..looked around and then looked up and saw Kool Kat and me..He was stunned...Kool Kat holstered his .357 magnum..

"I owed that piece of garbage from years ago...He tried to kill me..Told you we was gonna meet again Lonnie..." snarled Kool Kat, standing over the body of the dead Lonnie Johnson...As an afterthought..He hauled off and kicked the dead body as hard as he could...cracking one of the dead man's ribs..

He then turned his attention to a frightened Mr. Tickle, who was lying in a pool of his own blood, mortally wounded..

 "How ya doin Tickle?  That looked like it hurt.." asked Kool Kat...now staring balefully at him on the floor in a pool of his own blood.. Mr. Tickle , who didn't know who Kool Kat was was terrified..Then I bent over him...

"Let me help you find your tongue,I'm sure the cat has it...I'm alive and well..."I said.

He was in obvious pain.....

"YOU!!! DAMN YOU!!!!  BIG BUTT WAS RIGHT!!! YOU ARE ALIVE!!!!!  HOW DID YOU SURVIVE?? HOW COME YOU'RE NOT DEAD???  I DON'T BELIEVE THIS..... AWWW NUTS!!!! SO I GUESS YOU'RE GONNA FINISH ME OFF HUH?" he snarled..

"Nah! Much as I'd like to....I'm not...You've uh been punished enough...  I'm going to call the police....Time for you to go back to jail Cyrus....There are some people there who can't wait to see you.. Oh and you're welcome for us saving your life!"I said.

Kool Kat laughed...

"See ya around Tickle...Looks like this was your lucky day...depending on how you look at it. " he said and we both laughed..

Mr. Tickle lie on the floor with five bullets in him, bleeding profusely and in excrutiating pain...Still alive....

"You rotten sons of bitches...." snarled Mr. Tickle....

In the bed lie the young lady he'd been screwing for the past four to five hours, Fiona Lawson, with a neat bullet hole right between her eyes and and exit wound in the back of her head...her head slumped over and blood splashed across the wall.....Dead!!!

In the corner lie Lonnie Johnson.... His head practically blown off from the gunshot wound to the back of his head...his blood everywhere...Also dead!

What a mess...

The bodies of low level hitman, Lonnie Johnson and

call girl, Fiona Lawton were removed and taken to the morgue...

Nobody cared about who had killed Lonnie Johnson...

Mr. Tickle was unconscious by the time the police and the M.E.'s office arrived......

Mr. Tickle was taken to the hospital where he stayed for about a month and a half... Five slugs were removed from him..He recovered from his wounds and was returned to Prison...But not Flintlock....The High Security prison at Chester would be his new home...There were too many people at Flintrock who wanted to do him harm...He spends his days locked up 23 hours.. He comes out for an hour to shower and exercise, alone...Isolated from the other prisoners...For him ,that is his own special hell....At least, he's safe from any reprisals from Bob Big Butt Thornton, who made it no secret he wanted Mr. Tickle dead..

I knew that Attorney A.J. Miller...being Bob Big Butt Thornton's lawyer had arranged for Johnson and the girl, Fiona Lawton to set Mr. Tickle up...on orders from  Bob "Big Butt" Thornton no doubt...but there was no way to prove it.. The slippery Attorney had once again evaded the justice I knew was coming for him one day!

Bob "Big Butt"Thornton was furious when he found  out that both Lonnie Johnson and Randy Jenkins, both ,close personal friends of his were dead and that Mr. Tickle had survived his wounds...Mr. Tickle told the authorities that Bob "Big Butt"Thornton put the contract out on him...They questioned him for hours...but Big Butt would admit to nothing..and  there was no way to prove it..The only people who could verify Mr. Tickle's story were dead!!!

Bob "Big Butt"Thornton's cell phone was taken from him and he was thrown in Solitary confinement for 22 days...He was furious...I don't know if he was more angry at me or Mr. Tickle... At any rate..I didn't care..They both were buried...As they say!

Case Closed!

EPILOUGE-

With everything back to normal, Sepia and I and Kimmie spent a quiet day together at home...

"Wow! It's nice to have some peace for a change..."I said..

"You think we'll ever be rid of Mr. Tickle?" asked Sepia..

"Yeah...When his appeals are exhausted and he's finally executed for all of his crimes."I said...

"How about Big Butt Thornton?" asked Sepia..

"Oh I think he has a new found respect for me now...This makes about three times I've outwitted and outplayed him....Very little he can do locked up and serving a life sentence...with no man on the outside." I said...

"But enough shop talk....Eva Corona is coming over to pick up Kimmie for the night..."I said.

"Oh Really?" asked Sepia, her eyebrows arching...

"It's Saturday Night..We are going to Josie's tonight...I promised Donnie Ray I'd come and hear him play with 88's group..."I said..

"Ouuu nice..." said Sepia..

''And afterwords we are coming back here and pick up where we left off in the hotel.." I said, smiling raffishly...

"Ouuuuuu sounds like a happy ending..." said Sepia, smiling..