Tate Valley Sexy Suspense Series (Books 1-3)

by Stacy-Deanne

  “I think when he needs folks knocked off or kept quiet…the police are the ones filling the order.”

  “Wait a minute.” She looked him in the eyes. “Now I’m the first person to say this department is crooked as hell, but are you saying cops are killing people for Grant?”

  “I think so.” He sat back. “People on the streets talk, and we know more about what goes on in this town than anyone ever will.”

  She stared at her cup. “You think it’s a possibility that Grant had a cop kill Nolan?”

  “Would you really be surprised?” Base sipped. “That would explain why it was swept under the rug.” He looked her in the eyes. “Leo wasn’t the first officer to investigate Nolan’s death, yet he was the only one who noticed the brake lines fucked up? Come on.” He grimaced. “If Grant had a cop kill Nolan it would’ve been perfect. He’d be protected until the end.”

  She slammed her cup down and snatched his hand. “I have a plan but I need your help. I’ll pay you.”

  “Pay me to what?” He let her hand go and looked at her sideways.

  “Grant doesn’t have to hide anything from you, right?” She gestured to him. “If you talk to him about Nolan he probably won’t be suspicious because you’ve done his dirty work, so he trusts you.”

  He rubbed his chin. “I don’t know if I like this.”

  “You’ll be fine.” She pressed her hands together. “Please, Base.”

  “What do you want me to do, Alexis?”

  She exhaled. “I want to wireless wire you.”

  He raised his eyebrow. “Say what?”

  “I’m going to give you a cell phone with a special app and I want you to go to Grant and see if he confesses to being involved in what happened. The cell phone will record the conversation and feed it into a cell phone I’ll have. I’ll be able to hear everything and you don’t have to worry about wearing a wire.”

  “Are you out of your mind?” He scooted from the table. “That’s nuts!”

  “You’re a police informant for God’s sake. This is what you do.”

  “Yeah, but this is not tricking some low-level junkie. We’re talking about Grant Copeland here.”

  She reached for him. “You said you wanted to help me.”

  “You wanna throw me into the belly of the beast?”

  “I’m going to protect you.” She grabbed his hand. “You can trust me.”

  “God.” He put his hands over his face. “Alexis—”

  “I promise nothing will happen to you.” She held her hand up. “I need you, Base. You’re probably the only person who can help me right now.”

  “You don’t think Grant will be suspicious if I walk in there and start talking about Armstrong?” He huffed. “He’s gonna know something’s up. I’m sure he already knows you’ve been speaking to me. He knows everything that happens in this town before it happens.”

  She rubbed her forehead. “Listen—”

  “Besides, when he paid me to set up Leo he never told me why he wanted me to. He didn’t give it up to me then so what makes you think he will now? This will never work.”

  “We have to try.” She stood. “Will you help me?”

  He sighed. “I can’t believe this.” He stood.

  “Will you do it?”

  He nodded.

  “Thank you.” She inhaled a cloud of funk when she hugged him but she didn’t care.

  “When you wanna do this?” he asked.

  “Give me some time to set everything up then I’ll let you know.”

  “I’m trusting you, Alexis.”

  They walked into the living room.

  Base turned when he got to the front door. “Are you sure you wanna do this?”

  “I’ve never been surer about anything in my life.” Alexis opened the door.

  Kevin pulled up as Base stepped onto the porch. “Uh-oh.” Base looked back at her.

  Shit.

  She’d love being with Kevin every minute, but he had a habit of showing up at the wrong times.

  He got out his car, gawking at Alexis and Base.

  “I’ll see you.” Base waved to Alexis and went down the steps.

  “Wait.” Alexis stepped out on the porch. “How can I reach you?”

  Kevin stared at Base as he reached the house.

  “You still got Andrea’s number?” Base asked Alexis.

  She nodded.

  “Just call her and she’ll let me know.” Base stopped beside Kevin. “What’s up?”

  Kevin nodded but didn’t speak.

  “Check you later, Alexis.” Base walked across the yard and into the street.

  “Do you need a ride or something?” she called out.

  “I’m fine.” He waved. “I got here on my own, I can leave on my own, too.”

  He disappeared in the darkness.

  Chapter Eleven

  Kevin stared in the direction Base left in. “What the hell’s going on?”

  Alexis pulled him into the house, closed the door, and pushed him against it. “Base is helping me with Grant.” She planted kisses down his neck. “Isn’t that wonderful?”

  “Wait…” He maneuvered his head to speak. “What are you talking about?”

  “He, uh…” She opened his blazer and tugged on his tie.

  I know I can trust you but…forgive me. I can’t tell you everything.

  “He came over because he was feeling guilty about setting up Leo.” She wrapped his tie around her hand. “He says he’ll help me if I need him to.” She kissed him.

  “Wait.” He moved from the door. “How could Base help you?”

  “You know, with any information he might hear in the streets.” She pulled him close. “I’m close, Kevin. I can feel it. I’m going to find out Grant’s secret.”

  “Sounds like you’re not upset about the sex video anymore.” He walked to the couch and took off his blazer.

  “I didn’t see any traces of it on the Internet.” She grabbed her cigarettes and lighter from the table and sat. “If it was Grant he did it to intimidate me.” She lit a cigarette. “All we can do is keep an eye out and hope it doesn’t end up online.”

  “He claims he didn’t do it.” Kevin sat down. “He says maybe it was the cleaning crew and he’ll check it out.”

  “Bullshit.” She puffed smoke. “Why would someone from the cleaning crew videotape us making love? That doesn’t make a bit of sense.” She laid the end of the cigarette in her mouth then snatched it back out. “Also, how would someone from the cleaning crew get my cell number?”

  “You’re a detective.” He straightened his blazer on his lap. “Don’t you give out your cell phone to almost anyone?”

  She put the cigarette in the ashtray and snuggled in his arms. “You know as well as I do that Grant is doing this stuff.”

  “It doesn’t make it easy to accept.” He kissed her forehead. “I love my job and I’m grateful for what Grant’s done for me, but it’s getting harder to be around him.”

  She rose. “I need you to stick close to Grant and act like your feelings haven’t changed.”

  “He’s not stupid. He knows I’m starting to doubt him. He even said you were turning me against him.”

  “You have to make him think I’m not.” She kissed him. “Anyway, Grant’s not as slick as he thinks he is. He doesn’t want you to go even if he knows you doubt him. He wants you around so he can find out what I’m doing.”

  He rubbed the back of his head. “I feel like a rubber band with the way you’re both pulling me in these directions.”

  “I know something of yours I’d like to pull.” She chuckled, fondling the seat of his pants.

  He closed his eyes, and she felt him getting hard from her touch.

  “What do you say?” she whispered in his ear. “I’m dirty.”

  He raised an eyebrow. “Is that right?”

  “Oh, yes.” She licked his earlobe. “I need this filth washed off me, and you’re just the man to do it.”

&n
bsp; “Actually.” He licked his lips. “Making you dirtier would be a lot more fun.” He stood, wrapping his arms around her.

  She unbuttoned his shirt. “Let’s take a bath and see just how filthy we can get.”

  ****

  Alexis relaxed in the warm water, locking her legs around Kevin. “You’re hard already, huh?”

  “I’m always hard when you’re around.”

  Suds drifted between them, caressing her pussy. “The water feels good.” She dipped her hand in the water and rubbed her nipple. “They’re so hard.”

  “Are they?” Kevin captured her breast in his mouth and sucked.

  “Yes.” She ran her soapy fingers through his hair, the bathroom alive with the smell of lemons from the Bubble Bath. “Oh, Kevin.”

  “You’ve got the most beautiful, chocolate tits.”

  She laughed. “Can’t say I ever heard that before.”

  He moved his mouth to her other breast and flicked the nipple with his tongue. “Can’t wait to taste your pussy.”

  “You don’t have to wait.” She moaned, eyes closed. “I wanted your mouth on me the second you walked in the door.”

  “As always?” He grinned, lifting her legs.

  “Yes.” She pulled her nipple. “Show me what I’ve been missing.”

  “Why don’t we show each other?” He guided his hands under her ass. “Ever sixty-nine in a tub?”

  She licked her lips. “Can’t say I have, no.”

  “You’re about to.” He turned around and pulled his leg over her, his ass in front of her face. “You like that view?”

  “Yes.” She licked between his dripping cheeks, tonguing his tight hole. “I could do this forever.”

  “Ooh, Lexi.” He rocked. “Right there. Keep sucking my ass.”

  She grabbed his waist and pushed her tongue further inside.

  “Right there.” He tugged his dick. “Oh.” His lips clamped on her clit.

  “Kevin.” She gasped, the water shifting underneath them.

  “Huh?” He pried her lips apart and blew tiny breaths.

  “Oh!” She jerked, giggling.

  He blew on it again then kissed her thighs while fondling her soapy bush.

  “You bad boy.” She moaned. “You teasing me?”

  He whipped her clit with his tongue.

  She gyrated, grabbing him. “Keep licking.”

  “Do your job.” He panted. “Suck my ass.”

  He felt so good Alexis had forgotten to repay the favor. “Keep eating me, Kevin.”

  “I won’t stop until you split in two,” he said, still licking. “You dirty little…you like that ass?”

  She moaned her approval.

  “Aw, suck, Lexi.” He spread her pussy lips wider, licking her vagina. “Give me this pussy. Mm.”

  Alexis squealed.

  He lifted his leg. “Deeper,” he commanded. “Stick your tongue in deeper, Lexi.”

  She thrust it in him, harder.

  “Like that. Just like that.”

  “Kiss my thigh,” she whispered.

  He smooth suds in between her thighs and kissed them dry.

  Alexis gyrated, sweat dripping from parts she didn’t know she had.

  He nipped her thigh.

  “Uh-huh.” Her toes shot apart. “I like that.”

  “Let me get back to this pussy.” He massaged her clit as she licked his asshole.

  “I’m gonna come on your fuckin’ neck,” he growled.

  “Not yet.” She huffed and puffed. “You come now I’ll never forgive you.”

  “Don’t…” He sat up. “Think I can hold it.”

  “Hold on. Move.”

  He got off her, and she turned around on her stomach.

  He climbed on top and pinned her hands to the tub. “I love you so much.” He kissed the back of her shoulders. “I’m gonna show you.”

  “Show me.” She pressed her wet ass against his dick.

  He rotated his hips and caressed her back, leaving trails of soap. “You ready?” he whispered.

  “Yes. Take me.”

  He rocked against her anus, not entering.

  “Mm.” She wriggled.

  “I’m gonna come and I’m not even inside you.”

  “Come in my ass.”

  “Not yet.” He rolled his dick across her cheeks, awakening the sensitive nerves of her ass.

  “Fuck me, Kevin. Now. Please.”

  “Keep begging for this dick and maybe I’ll think about it.”

  “You son of a bitch.”

  They laughed.

  “I won’t forget this.” She grinned. “Next time you can’t hold it…”

  He pushed her butt cheeks up, exposing her ass. “All right, all right.” He groaned as he maneuvered his way inside.

  “Yes,” she shrieked. “Fuck me.”

  He pumped her.

  “Oh, yes.” Alexis’ mouth hung open. “Harder.”

  “Take it.” He yanked her hair. “Take all that dick.”

  “Oh yeah pull my hair.” She grunted. “Pull my fuckin’ hair!” She sat back, riding his cock.

  “Yeah.” He kissed her back. “I like you riding it like this.”

  “Fuck.” Alexis pushed her ass on him. “You’re so deep. Ah.”

  “Bounce.” He grabbed her shoulder as he pounded. “Ride that dick. Come on.”

  “Oh.” Her pussy swelled, the tingling intensifying. “I’m gonna come, Kevin. I’m coming.” She clenched his dick between her ass, overflowing with ecstasy.

  He grunted, coming inside her. “God.”

  Alexis bent over, panting. “Kevin.”

  “Hm?” He wheezed.

  “There’s something…” She huffed and puffed. “Something I want to tell you.”

  He lay on her back. “What is it?”

  “The police might be involved in what happened to Nolan. We already know they protect Grant, but how far does that go?”

  He spoke against her back, “I can’t believe we just made love and we’re talking about Grant…again?”

  She turned around, relaxing in the water. “I think Grant had a cop cut Nolan’s brake lines.”

  “What are you basing this on?” He scoffed, settling between her legs. “Base? A junkie, slash police informant, slash someone who set up Leo Pacheco?”

  “I trust Base.”

  “You don’t even know the guy, Lexi.”

  “Base came here tonight because he hates what he did for Grant.” She put her arms around his neck. “The fact that he regrets what he’s done says a lot.”

  “Did you think maybe he has his own motives? He knew that you knew he set up Leo, so maybe he’s looking after his own ass. Maybe he wants you to think he’s on your side so he won’t get in trouble.”

  “No.” She propped her leg up. “Base is genuine, and even if he’s not I have no choice. He’s the only person who can even come close to linking Grant to what happened.” She caressed his cheek, dampening it with suds. “I need Base whether I like it or not.”

  * * * *

  “Lock me up!” a man yelled in the police station the next day. “I don’t give a shit!”

  Alexis and Penelope jumped up from their cubicles.

  “That son of a bitch is gonna pay!” Khalil Williams struggled as two uniformed officers dragged him past Alexis and Penelope. “Ain’t this typical? Arrest the black man even when he didn’t do nothing wrong!”

  “What the hell?” Penelope and Alexis bolted from their desks and caught up with the officers down the hall.

  “Hey!” Alexis stopped them. “What’s going on?”

  “A white man can do anything to a black woman and get away with it.” Khalil tussled. “That’s what’s going on.”

  “He assaulted Danny Xavier at his place just now,” said one of the officers.

  “He deserved it,” Khalil spat. “He did something to my sister. I know he did.”

  Alexis pulled Khalil from the officers. “He’s connected to our
murder case,” she told them. “We need to speak to him immediately.”

  The officers looked at each other and let Khalil go.

  “Can you take the cuffs off him please?” Alexis asked.

  The first officer hesitated then took the cuffs off him. “We’ll need him back.”

  Alexis nodded. “And you’ll get him back.”

  She and Penelope led Khalil to the interrogation room down the hall.

  Alexis went in and turned on the light. “Please come in, Khalil.”

  “Why?” He poked his lips. “You guys don’t give a shit what happened to Nadine. You think she killed that white girl.”

  “We want to know the truth no matter what it is.” Alexis pointed inside. “We want to hear what happened with you and Danny X.”

  Khalil mumbled and sat at the table.

  Penelope closed the door. “What happened?”

  “I kicked his ass, that’s what happened.” Khalil rubbed his bruised knuckles. “I know he had something to do with Nadine’s disappearance.”

  “Why?” Alexis asked.

  “I think he killed her.”

  “Whoa.” Penelope sat across from him. “You can’t go accusing people of murder without just cause, Khalil. What makes you think Nadine is dead in the first place?”

  “I just got a feeling.” He breathed hard. “Nadine ain’t the type to go all this time and not come around. She and Momma are extremely close, and she hasn’t even called her since Sunday.” He propped up his elbows. “I think Danny killed that other girl too. He’s into all kinds of shit and he introduced my sister to those shady ass people.”

  “Like who?” Penelope asked.

  “Hell, I don’t know names but she wasn’t living this kind of lifestyle until she started hanging around Danny. She’s in his fight club.”

  “We know,” Alexis said. “You should’ve told us about that when we first spoke to you.”

  “I didn’t know she’d end up missing and I didn’t wanna get her in trouble with Danny by talking too much.” He took a deep breath. “You don’t fuck with those people Danny’s involved with. They got a lot of money riding on that club.” He laid his fist to his mouth. “Since you guys already know about the club, why the hell hasn’t he been arrested?”

  “We don’t have any proof of Danny having a fight club,” Alexis said. “All we have is what folks have said, but if we know where this club is, we can investigate. Do you know?”