Stirring The Pot

"You Look tired" said My wife Sepia as I arrived at home..

I was tired...I had only expected to talk to Charles Crotty, who was looking more and more guilty of something every minute...I wound up tussling with two goons...Of course I had no proof he had sicked them on me, but who else would have and why?

By now he had to know that this only made him look bad...and worse...scared..

"I am tired bae...Long night.."I said..

We walked up to the bedroom....I crashed across Sepia's legs on the bed...She ran her fingers through my head....She was wearing one of my white shirts..

"I know what will make you feel better...Take your clothes off first.." she said..

I smiled..

"Now that's what I'm talking about.."I said with a smile..

"You are so nasty...We can get to that eventually...We...You and I are going to take a shower together...." she suggested....

"

Doesn't sound bad.." I said.

 "It'll relax you.."said Sepia...

I had just had our bathroom redone completely...a brand new shower...No time to test it like the present...

Sepia and I took a nice hot shower, kissing each other long and softly......letting the hot soapy water just run from us.....

After the shower we both wound up on top of our bed...making sweet love....

Kissing, moving in and out....

She was baby soft, smelled so good, especially after the shower, when she had lotioned down..and was moist and warm inside....I was losing my mind..

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm hussssssssssband..."she moaned..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl.." was all I could manage to say....

Our bed was squeaking and moving from side to side...I had moved the bed so that the headboard would not smack against the wall...It was rattling though...

FIVE TO SIX HOURS of this was just what the doctor ordered....

Sepia rolled over on top of me and eased herself down on my still rock hard and engorged penis...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm,ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu babyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.." she cooed..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh girrrrrrrrrrrrrll.."I moaned as she moved up and down slowly,softly...

TWO TO THREE more hours followed..

It was damn near daybreak....

I couldn't believe how intensely we'd been making love.....Sepia's body began to shake...Tears flowed freely down her face and she held on to me for dear life...

I began to cum like a river....Shaking also.....

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm.."I moaned...

Sepia lie there with me.....both of us were exhausted but completely satisfied...Sepia knew just what to do to make me feel better after a night like I'd had.




II-

It was late the next morning when I woke up...I could smell coffee brewing...

Sepia had been up...Had showered and dressed ,when I came downstairs...

I smiled at her...

She smiled at me...

"Husband...Why were you bothering with old Charlie Crotty?" She asked..

"He was the last known person to see Eddie Vincent alive.."I said..

"So? He's a food critic, Eddie Vincent is a Sui Chef...He would be around him..He's been around Sam Mother...My Cousins, Mabel, Corabeth, Anita and Vanessa Jenkins...All of em...They don't like him too much ,which is why he destroys them in his podcasts and his columns...but it doesn't stop business..While other people he razzes , it does bother them...A bad review from him could mean a loss in clientele."said Sepia.

"Yeah...and a good word from him could mean you're on the A-List...several of those restaurants got horrible reviews....Then a month later they got good reviews...Same joint, same cooks...nothing different about the menus....Well suppose...Just suppose maybe they greased his palms to get a good mention..?"I asked.

''Is that illegal?" asked Sepia.

"Yes the hell it is..That's extortion.." I said.  "What you did to me last night in that bed was illegal too!"I said and pinched her bottom..

"Ouuuuu..stopppp!"said Sepia ,jumping...

I kissed her as I got up...

"Thank you baby...You always help me out with my cases in ways you don't even know.."I said as I headed out..

III-

I visited Sam Mother....He looked around and then motioned me to the back of his restaurant...

"Yeah Kev..he comes around here...Eats a meal or two and then kills me..writes the worst review of my joint ever...I believe he called the Health Department and L& I on me to make me look bad...He tells me if I pay him $1500.00 a month...He'll give me a good review...I told him to take a hike..He still kills me with his podcasts and his reviews...but too many cops and lawyers eat here and have been eating here for years...He hasn't put a dent in my business.."said Sam..

"You ever see him with Eddie Vincent?" I asked.

"Yeah, a couple of times...The week in September, before Eddie Vincent vanished..They were in here they had a loud argument...I don't know what it was about...but Eddie said that Crotty was toast."said Sam Mother...

"Thanks Sam" I said..

"Next I visited Mabel Jenkins, Anita Jenkins and Corabeth Hamilton...They ran everybody's favorite Soul Food Joints...They had two locations...The original and one ran by their older sister Vanessa in Chris and Chess's Shopping Center. They also did catering and prepared the food for Josie's Sunday Brunch..

"He came by here....He ate in this location and at my sister's shop.."said Mabel...

"Yeah,then he wrote a scathing article on us and called L&I, claimed we weren't clean...He said he had nothing to do with that, but we know it was him."said Anita..

"He wanted $3000.00 a month from both establishments and he said he'd go easy, write a nicer review..We told him to get lost."said Corabeth...

''And he continues to write scathing articles on you guys."I said.

"Our business has not dropped at all...We haven't lost one customer!"said Mabel..."People know our place is clean and they know we serve good food.."said Mabel..

"That's right..Thank you ladies.." I said.

I visited old acquaintance Stephen Bristol, who owned Sky Box...A rooftop establishment that served the movers and the shakers in Philadelphia..

The bar  covered a large area and like Aqua Bar, was actually a huge aquarium with exotic fish and sea creatures swimming in it...There were  beautiful wooden fire places just feet from the bar which funnelled warm air towards the patrons who were either at the bar or in the lounge chairs nearby... Gorgeous African-American, Asian, Latina and White waitresses took the food orders from the kitchen just a floor below.

 Stephen Bristol...a mover and a shaker with a somewhat shaky background...He was one of the wealthiest Black men in Philadelphia...He had made his fortune supposedly from playing the stock market...but the streets told a different story...He had a network of people who gave him information...inside information that he used to make just the right moves...Yes...It was insider trading...but he got out before the SEC or The FBI even knew his name..he got out with a pile of money...He was also a notorious gambler ,who played in a number of high stakes card games and won a pile.....and he had his hand in every hip new thing that came down the pike...

It was said that he had ties to the underworld...but if he did...It was never proven...He had no criminal record whatsoever....but it was known..He was not to be crossed...He was about my age...Tall, thin, brown skinned, well cut hair..manicured nails and was a sharp dresser...Wore tailor made suits, expensive shoes, expensive fresh smelling cologne and drove a mint colored Bently with his name monogramed on it...

He lived in a Condo near Penns Landing....

He smiled upon seeing me..I sat down and ordered a meal...

''Kevin...Kevin...Long time no see... When are you going to bring that beautiful wife of yours to my joint?" he asked..

''Soon Stephen soon.."I said and then said a name.."Charles Crotty, what do you know about him?" I asked..

Stephen looked around...Then he sat down with me as I ate....

"Can you help me out Kevin?" he asked..

"He visited you too? How much do you pay him a month?" I asked..

"20 large....I mean we pulled in a lot...but that Ten large started out as 5 Large and it may bump up to 40 Large.."said Stephen Bristol..

"Bristol...He pulled the same stunt on Mabel Jenkins and Sam Mother..They told him to take a hike and they're doing good.."I said.

"Mabel Jenkins...Sam Mother...They're not in my leauge Kevin...Sam Mother..he runs a greasy spoon diner..Mabel Jenkins..She's got two soul food joints..Look at this place...Look at my clientele..I don't need any bad publicity..A bad review, L& I visits here and suddenly I lose my big paying clients...I can't afford that.."said Stephen Bristol..

"So you pay him 20 Large a month?" I asked.

"It's not Just me...The Manager at Mulberry Street pays him 20 Large a month too!..

''And your boy, Dollar Bill pays him 20 large a month also..

And a half dozen other high end joints like mine...They can't afford the bad publicity...The guy writes well..."said Stephon Bristol...

"Did you know Eddie Vincent?" I asked..

"Hellll yeah, best Sui Chef ever....He did a seafood display here...Knocked everybody's socks off...He had a side catering business that was getting some buzz...Haven't seen him around lately..."said Stephen Bristol..

"Yeah...nobody has...I've been hired to find him..."I said..

"Between me and you...Even he was paying Crotty off..."said Bristol..

''Why? he didn't have a restaurant...He catered.."I said.

"A Catering Business ..A Sui Chef needs a good recomendation...Especially when he's starting out..."said Stephon Bristol..

"Maybe I can help you Stephen..."I said.."Maybe we can help each other..Im gonna put Crotty out of business." I said as I finished my food.

"Your meal is on the house Kevin." he said...

IV-

I talked to 17 different restauranters in confidence and all showed me their financial records and tax forms, which I photographed..

Each restauranter brought in a certain amount of money per month profit and there was 20-30 large unaccounted profit missing...

Creative accounting covered the loss, but I got statements from all saying that Charles Crotty was shaking them down in exchange for a good review....

A study of his finances showed a significant rise over a period of a year of unaccounted for income..What I had could make a good case for the IRS...but it didn't find me Eddie Vincent...

I went back to Eddie Vincent's house...With a flashlight and wearing latex booties and latex gloves...I searched his house from pillar to post and I located it...A Zip Drive..

He had hidden it in the ceiling tile..Had taped it to the back of the tile...I found it quite by accident..

I took this home with me..

Sepia and I watched it..

"Oh My...He collected the same information you collected...All of the tax returns and financial records of all of those businesses you talked to and some you didn't know about...."she said..

"He's got canceled checks...and credit card records...This is enough to put Mr. Charlie Crotty behind bars for 25 years or more ,plus disbar him, Extortion, Wire Fraud, Extortion by Electronic communication...Eddie must have told him that not only was he not going to pay him, but that he knew what he was doing and was going to go to the police with this..."I said..

''That could have gotten him killed.."said Sepia.

"That probably did get him killed...The problem is...Where is the body?"I said..

"Oh to have your problems..."said Sepia as she took me by the hand and led me upstairs to our bedroom...

There was a full moon out tonight...

 We stood in the middle of our room and kissed passionately........

"Ummmm husband I love you soo much..." said Sepia in between slow ,smouldering kisses...

"I love you too baby." I said...

Sepia was two and a half, nearly three years younger than me...I loved her firm, round and warm body....that smelled baby soft and was just as wet as a river inside..

I lifted her up and long stroked her...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhKevin, don't stop baby,don't stop.."she moaned...

I couldn't stop, I couldn't get enough...

Sepia lowered her sexy body down on top of me and moved up and down softly and slowly as we fell upon the bed......She told me this position made her cum the hardest.....

She was crying like a little girl and sweat was just running down the side of her face as she moved up and down.....Her body was trembling....I was losing my mind, she felt so good....

Her body was so round, so soft...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu husssssssband..." she moaned..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."I moaned as she continued to move up and down and ride me like the wind...

(CONCLUSION NEXT)