In A Cold Sweat

“Okay, I can understand that, but what’s a cleaner?”

“Somebody to get rid of the body and clean up the place so there’s no trace that he was here.”

“The room’s in your name, so I guess we can’t just leave him here,” Mystique said and got out of bed.

“Not an option,” I said to her and watched her as she began to get dressed and considered picking up where I left off one more time. Yeah, Mystique was gettin’ hard to resist.

Chapter Eleven

“I don’t see or hear from you for days at a time. I have to practically beg you to come over here. When I do see you, it’s only for a couple of hours and then you’re gone again. We never go anywhere, we never do anything. You just come over here and fuck me once, maybe twice if I’m lucky, and then you’re gone and I never know when I’ll see you again,” Tanya told Freeze.

For his part, Freeze just sat there, listening to Tanya but not speaking. He had heard this all before, not only from Tanya, but from Paulleen. It wasn’t that she was saying anything that wasn’t true, he just didn’t want to hear it.

Lately Tanya had been bringing the subject up more frequently, just as Paulleen had before her. Paulleen’s solution to the issue was to fuck everybody. He wondered if Tanya would come to the same resolution. Freeze looked at her and knew the answer was yes, she would. He knew the easiest way to make your woman grudge fuck was to ignore her. But as long as Tanya showed him some respect and kept it out of his face, he really didn’t care.

Maybe the whole havin’ a woman thing ain’t for you, kid, Freeze thought and stood up. “And we do go somewhere.”

“Where?”

“The mall.”

Tanya smiled. “Yeah, well, okay there is that.” The last time Freeze took Tanya shopping, he dropped damn near ten grand. Freeze may not have been around as much as she may have liked, but one thing he did know how to do was take care of his woman.

Tanya hadn’t had to come out of her pocket for anything since her and Freeze got together. No mortgage, no bills, nothing. She had long ago traded her old Taurus sedan for a new Lexus LS 460. The note was taken care of monthly by the finance company that Black owned.

Over the past year, her real estate business had picked up and Tanya was able to bank all of that money. And cash on hand was never a problem because Freeze always left whatever cash he had in his pocket on her vanity. “I can always get more cash,” he would tell her.

Freeze started heading for the door. “Where are you goin’?” Tanya asked.

“I got someplace I need to be.” Anyplace but here, Freeze thought.

“So that’s your solution to the problem?” Tanya got out of bed and followed Freeze out of her bedroom. “That’s your solution? You're gonna just leave?”

Freeze stopped and turned to face Tanya. She stopped suddenly when she saw the fury in his eyes.

“Yeah. This is my solution,” Freeze said, walking toward her. Tanya started backing up. “I’m out. And when I’m gone, ain’t no tellin’ when you gonna see me again. Ain’t that what you said?” By now, Tanya had backed her way back into the bedroom. “Ain’t that what you said?” Freeze shouted.

“Yes,” Tanya said softly.

“You think I wanna come out here to hear that shit? You know who the fuck I am. You know what the fuck I do. Now, all of a fuckin’ sudden you got a fuckin’ problem with it?”

“No, baby.”

“I didn’t think so.”

“It’s just that I love you, baby,” Tanya said and meant it. She really was in love with Freeze; Tanya just wanted to feel some love coming from him. “I just wanna see more of you, that’s all. Is that so wrong for me to wanna see and spend time with the man I love?”

“Whatever,” Freeze said and started to leave again.

And once again, Tanya followed him out of her bedroom. She locked her arm around his as he continued to walk. Then Tanya got in front of him to block the door. “You not gonna give me some before you go, baby?” she whined with a sad face.

Freeze took out his gun and Tanya smiled. He took a deep breath and turned around. Freeze went back in the bedroom and Tanya gladly followed behind him. He put the gun under the pillow and took off his shirt.

Tanya allowed her gown to drop to the floor and stretched out on the bed. Once Freeze was undressed, he joined her. He lay on his back. “Go on, get you some,” he said, imitating the way she said it and locked his fingers behind his head.

Tanya quickly took Freeze into her mouth and teased his head with her tongue. When he was rock hard, Tanya straddled Freeze and lowered herself into him. She slowly began to move her hips from side to side and slid up and down on him.

Tanya sat up and placed her hands on his legs, and then her feet on the bed and Freeze arched his back and thrust himself deep inside her. Tanya grabbed the back of his head and forced a nipple into his mouth. Freeze licked and sucked her nipple and Tanya’s head drifted back. Her mouth opened wide and she screamed, “Shit!”

Tanya rolled off of Freeze, breathing hard, and positioned herself on the bed. She spread her legs as wide as she could get them. “Come on, baby-” That’s when Tanya noticed that Freeze was out of bed and picking up his clothes. “Where are you going?”

“I told you I got someplace to be,” Freeze said and headed for the bathroom.

“That’s it?”

“You said you wanted some. You got you some. I got someplace to be,” Freeze said and closed the door.

Now that he was out of Tanya’s Mount Vernon home and on his way back to the Bronx, Freeze took out his cell. “What’s the word, Sergeant Adams? I know you got somethin’ for me.”

“Of course, baby. I always got a whole lot for you. You coming by here?” Tamia asked, hoping he’d say yes.

“I’ll be there in about an hour,” Freeze told her.

“I’ll have it wet for you,” Tamia said definitely. “Use your key,” she added and ended the call. Even though she was a cop, Tamia was madly in love with Freeze and would do anything to make him happy.

Freeze knew how Tamia felt about him, but unlike with Tanya, who he had some feelings for, he discouraged it. One of these mutha fuckas in love is enough. Tamia was inside information on what the cops were doing. She was his very well paid confidential informant.

As Tamia requested, an hour later Freeze was using his key to let himself into her place. When he stepped inside the apartment, he was in darkness. He started to call out to Tamia, but knew she wouldn’t answer. Freeze took out his gun and went straight for the bedroom.

The room was lit with candles, one on each side of the bed. Tamia was laying face down on the bed, wearing a pair of stilettos and nothing else. She had propped a pillow under her waist, so her ass was in the air. Freeze came around to the side of the bed and put his gun under the pillow. Tamia turned her head and looked at him. “Hi, baby,” she cooed.

“What’s the word, Sergeant Adams?” Freeze asked and began to get undressed. “Damn, you have a pretty ass,” he said, sliding his hands across it and then along her lips.

“Thank you, baby. It’s all for you,” Tamia moaned and slid two fingers inside her. “It’s wet and creamy, for you.”

Freeze placed his hand on her wide hips. “You know that’s how I like it,” he said and spanked her cheek. Freeze got on his knees and entered Tamia slowly. While he glided himself in and out of her, Freeze smiled and thought about Tanya. Then he placed the weight of his body on his arms and Tamia rotated her hips; moving them slowly, then fast and then slowly again. Her body began to quiver as she stretched out her legs, trying to anticipate his movements.