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thereof. This was no time to be gossiping about my love
life.
    Just then, in walked Bonita Baldwin, the newest investigator on
Sonny’s team. She was African-American, plus-sized and drop-dead gorgeous. Sonny
had just hired her from Mobile and it was in all the papers that she’d be
joining the force. The daughter of Tuskegee professors, this apple sure didn’t
fall far from the tree. She’d graduated top of her class and her loud,
opinionated mouth had all of our attention, as did her designer shoes. She could
size things up in seconds, and she wasn’t afraid to tell it like it was. That’s
why Sonny hired her.
    “Hey, Blake, how are you?” She leaned in and gave me a hug. I
had met her at a function at City Hall for the police benefit the month before.
“We’ve got us a squirrelly little situation here, I see,” she said as she
quickly took in the room.
    “I know,” I said. “Vivi is just a mess because of it.”
    “Well, look here, Vivi, not to fret. We’ll get to the bottom of
this before long. Just trust me and Sonny. We got this, okay?” she said as she
snapped on her latex gloves. And with that, she bent over and began looking all
around the bed, lifting the bed skirt until…
    “Oh, my good God in heaven above. What in all hell is this?”
And up she came with Deputy Dick in her hand, holding it like it was the Olympic
Torch.
    “Vivi, you recognize this nasty thang?”
    Vivi turned ten shades of crimson, threw back the last sip of
her water and choked.
    “We’re gonna need us a big ole’ plastic bag for this. Just
somebody get over here quick and take this disgusting thing from me!” She was
holding it by two fingers, her face contorted somewhere between fear and nausea,
turning in circles in the tiny motel room looking for anyone to take the rubbery blue dildo from her perfectly manicured,
and thankfully gloved, hand. “Ooh, Lawd have mercy, I need to have my hands
sanitized after this!”
    Vivi leaned into me and said, “That’s Deputy Dick.”
    “Well,” I said, “I am so happy to finally meet him in person.
He is certainly a lovely shade of blue.” Vivi smiled and that relieved her
embarrassment, but only for a second. Another officer came in with a bag and
Bonita dropped the “deputy” into it.
    “Have mercy, I ain’t never seen such a big ugly thing as that.
It’s gonna give me nightmares….” She went to the sink, tossed her gloves and
washed her hands, muttering to herself as she primped in the mirror. Her makeup
was a thing of perfection. She looked like a doll with the most beautiful hair
and all of it in place, all the time. She, too, was a former pageant queen and
knew how to carry herself, plus size and all. Her weight never seemed to
matter—if anything, Bonita gave curves a good name. All anyone ever noticed was
her beauty and her spunk. As a detective, she was able to avoid the
uniform—which was a good thing, since her sense of fashion would never stretch
to black polyester. Today, she was wearing one of her many Chanel suits, cream
and trimmed in black. She was stunning to the eye.
    Vivi had gathered herself and was wiping her face with the wet
cloth Bonita had handed her when she finally spoke.
    “Uh, yes, to answer your question, Bonita, I do recognize that,
um, item. It is mine and I had it with me here in the room.” Vivi let out a huge
breath as if she had just admitted she knew the secrets of the Vatican.
    Bonita finished cleaning and primping herself and came over to
Vivi. “Now don’t you go worrying yourself over this, Vivi. All of us got our
kinky little secrets.” She winked at her.
    Vivi smiled up at her from where she was still sitting on the
bed.
    “Certainly this one is a good bit…shall we say… bigger than most, but it’ll all be okay.”
    Sonny and Bonita stepped to the doorway and planned their next
steps. Vivi was too out of sorts to notice them chatting, but I strained to
listen.
    “Sonny, what do you make of this?” Bonita