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  So it was settled. Royce stood by as Tam packed up a few days' worth of clothes in an extra large gym bag and grabbed her laptop computer. She grabbed some necessities from her bathroom too. He then led her down to his place. The apartment was a perfect replica of hers in layout, so he changed the sheets on his bed and put the dirty ones in the laundry for her while she set her bag down and walked out to the laundry room and kitchen area.

  "Royce, you didn't have to do this, you know. Hell, I don't even know your first name." She knew that he'd told the cops, but he'd whispered it to them, so she didn't know it yet.

  Royce looked at her and smiled. "I hate my first name, Tam. I prefer Royce."

  "Why? What is it? Fred? Melvin?" Tam ribbed him good naturedly.

  "It's Shiloh, ok?" He said as he looked down and blushed.

  "Shiloh. You know, I like that name." Tam smiled at him genuinely. "It suits you."

  "I hate it. I didn't choose it. Some nun or priest at the orphanage did, I think. I would have been perfectly happy with just Royce." He said with downcast eyes.

  He was usually so confident, but in front of a woman who he actually liked, he was self-conscious and tongue-tied. 'He likes me!' Tam realized that was the situation. 'Wow, he's cute, for a white boy. I do like the name, though. And so what if he's white? He's cute. I bet there's more to the story than he's letting on, though.'

  'Shit, I'm risking myself when I shouldn't be.' Royce thought as he smiled at her. 'If she discovers my work clothes... I have to think of a cover story!'

  She interrupted his thoughts. "I really appreciate you letting me stay, Royce." She smiled at him shyly.

  "Hey, that's what friends are for, right?" He gave her his most winning smile, and she smiled radiantly back at him. She walked forward and drew him into a hug.

  His arms wrapped around her, holding her tight. "I'm sorry I wasn't faster earlier." He whispered in her ear.

  "It's ok, sweety. At least you cared enough to call the cops and come help me." She whispered back, and her nipples hardened as she felt how solid his body was. He wasn't bulky, but he was definitely well muscled in a sinuous way.

  Her body melded to his as she held him close, and he could feel her nipples hard against his chest. He felt his cock getting harder, and pulled his hips back away from her so she wouldn't feel the 8" length and thick hardness. 'Yeah, she really wouldn't trust me if she thinks I'm getting hard just holding her in a hug!' His brain scolded him.

  Tam felt him move his hips back and smiled to herself. 'He's a gentleman!' She reasoned. 'He doesn't want me to find out how hard he is.'

  She whispered "It's ok, Royce. It's only natural."

  "Umm, are you sure it's ok? I mean, I don't have that much experience with all this." He blushed fiercely, and was thankful that with her head on his shoulder, she couldn't see his face. "I don't want you to think I'm some kind of perv, either."

  She laughed musically. "You're no more of a perv than most guys, and I think it's sweet that you don't want me to be uncomfortable."

  "Well, if you insist." He shrugged under her hug and pushed his hips forward again, his hardness pressing into her thigh.

  'Wow, not bad at all!' Tam thought to herself as she felt his respectable length pressing into her leg. She pulled back and looked at his crimson face. "Don't be embarrassed, Royce. I think it's flattering, and you have nothing to be ashamed of down there."

  "Have I told you today how beautiful you are?" He asked softly. "Or how sweet you are?"

  "You mean it, don't you?" She asked with a smile.

  "Yes, I do." He smiled back at her. "Tam, I've only been with one girl before, but she doesn't hold a candle to you."

  "Do... Do you want to be with me? Sweety, I mean, I'm black and all." Tam blushed as she said it. 'Nice going, stupid. Just point out the obvious, why don't ya!' She mentally kicked herself.

  "Well, Tamara Jenkins, I know what I like, and I definitely like you." Royce said with his natural charm coming back. He smiled genuinely at her.

  "I like you too, swee..." She stopped short as her cellphone's ringtone announced an incoming call. "Hold on." She gave him a kiss on the cheek and pulled her phone from her pocket as she disengaged from the hug.

  "Hey, sis." She answered the phone.

  "Hey, Tam. So what the fuck is going on over there? Darnell called me up from jail and asked me to bail his ass out! He says you made up some shit and got him sent to jail."

  "Shit, Cammie! Do you really believe that?! He went apeshit because I made some lunch for a neighbor who has been helping me out lately. That same neighbor called 911 when Darnell started hitting me, and probably saved my life when he came back up and got Darnell away from me!" Tam gave Royce a radiant smile as she said that last part.

  Royce smiled back. 'That's right! She has a sister!' He thought to himself. He was torn. Did he want her out so she wouldn't figure out what he did? Or did he want her to stay? Shit, this was a decision that wasn't going to end well!

  "Well hell! I wanna meet this guy!" Cammie said.

  "I'm staying with him until I can get the Manager to change the locks on my apartment, just in case Darnell made a copy of the key I gave him." Tam told her. "He lives right downstairs from my place."

  "I'll be there in an hour!" Cammie said to her sister, and hung up after they said their goodbyes.

  "That was my sister." Tam said as she folded herself back into his arms. "She's on her way over to meet you."

  "Oh, cool! Umm, can you stay with her? I mean, she's family and all, and I'm still pretty much a stranger." Royce shrugged, trying not to sound too enthusiastic to get rid of her, and still not sure he wanted her to leave.

  "I wish I could, sweety. I really like you. You're sweet and suicidally brave and all." Tam chuckled. "But Cammie is a single mom, and she only has a one bedroom place too. Her couch isn't a hide-a-bed, either."

  "Well, then you can stay here as long as you like." Royce smiled, thinking of a way to explain his late night excursions. "I do work at night, though. It's not every night, but some nights I have to go in."

  "What do you do? Security?" She asked, pulling her face back to look in his eyes.

  "Something like that, yeah. I test out security systems for flaws." He was proud of that one, since it wasn't technically a lie. It just wasn't his ultimate goal.

  Tam laughed. "I do something similar, only on the internet."

  "Oh?" Royce was suddenly interested.

  "Yeah, I test out firewalls to make sure they're enough to prevent a cyber-attack." She smiled. 'Shit, that was close! How would he react if he knew what I really did!?' Tam thought.

  "Well, I don't have much experience with computers, except to look stuff up on Google and Bing." Royce shrugged and gave her an embarrassed smile.

  "I might be able to teach you." She smiled back. "Umm, do you have any food? I'm starved." She asked.

  "Sure, what would you like? I have some hot pockets, microwave pizzas, ramen noodles?" He listed off his foodstuffs.

  "Well, ramen sounds good." Tam shrugged and gave him a shy smile.

  Royce grinned. "Ramen it is, then." He bowed. "Milady, your dinner will be served shortly."

  "Why thank you, kind sir." She inclined her head.

  He prepared two cups of ramen noodles and brought hers with a spoon. Both were beef flavored, and he knew she ate meat because of her groceries that he helped her with on a weekly basis.

  They sat on the couch together and talked, laughing at each other's jokes as they ate their noodles. By the time the food was gone, they were more comfortable with each other than before. As the laughter from one of Tam's jokes died down, they locked gazes and got lost in each other's eyes.

  Royce took a chance and leaned forward, stroking her cheek as he leaned close and kissed her tentatively on her full luscious lips. Tam was expecting it by the way he was looking at her, but the reality of the act blew her mind, and she moaned as an electrical surge went from her lips down to her pussy as his
lips touched hers tenderly.

  Tam responded with a moan as the white boy kissed her, parting her lips and accepting his tongue in her mouth. He kissed her more passionately as his tongue invaded her mouth to dance with hers. Her arms slipped up around his neck as the kiss deepened.

  Tam broke the kiss after a very long moment, pushing him back gently. "Royce, I really like you, but we need to discuss some things." She took a deep breath. The doorbell rang, and she sighed. "After my sister leaves, that is." She laughed as he got up to go check the door.

  Royce opened the door with a smile. "You must be Cammie? I'm Royce." He extended his hand and she stepped inside and shook it.

  "Yeah, I'm Cammie. Well, your jaw looks a lot better than I would have thought after going toe to toe with Darnell." She said.

  "You shoulda seen him, Cam! Darnell only hit him because he froze when the cops busted in, and Darnell got in a free shot." Tam said as she came over and hugged her sister.

  "I rolled with it." Royce said with a wince as he tried to move the left side of his jaw. "Shit, that hurts!"

  Cammie smiled at him then turned to her sister. "Tam, was that shiner because of Darnell?"

  "Yeah, but don't worry. The cops took the pictures, and we're both gonna testify against the asshole." Tam indicated Royce in her statement, and all he could do was bite the bullet and agree.

  "Yeah, even though cops make me nervous, and the last place I want to be is in a courthouse." He shrugged sheepishly. When Cammie looked at him strangely, he pushed on. "I grew up in an orphanage up in Sacramento, so it's a lot to do with nuns and priests."

  "Oh, so that explains it." Cammie said with a wink.

  "Yeah, I can't blame him." Tam supplied. "Where's Nate?"

  "He's still at daycare." Cammie shrugged. "I came straight here from work."

  "Good. Cammie, I'm sorry Darnell called you. He should know better by now." Tam shook her head as she apologized to her sister.

  "It's ok, Tam. I knew he was lyin' like a rug. Besides, he knew I'd call Jared." Cammie rolled her eyes.

  "How did you hook up with that guy anyway, Tam?" Royce asked, genuinely curious.

  Tam sighed. "Darnell used to be a sweet guy..."

  "Oh hell no he didn't!" Cammie interrupted her sister. "Royce, don't you believe a word of that. That punk ass bitch made Tam believe he was a good man, until he thought he had her for life and showed his true colors!"

  "Huh?" Royce was trying to follow all this.

  "Cammie was right about him. She warned me about him from the get-go, but I was young, in love, and didn't listen." Tam admitted with another apologetic smile for her sister.

  "Well, I'll be! Royce, write down the date and time please! My baby sister just admitted I was right!" Cammie smiled warmly at him and then hugged her sister. Tam hugged her back, and Royce just laughed at the exchange.

  Royce took inventory of his emotions. He was attracted to Tam without a doubt. She was so unlike Bethany or any of the other girls he'd known at the orphanage. Not just her skin color, but she had a soul in her that hadn't been beaten down, even after the emotional and possibly physical beatings she'd suffered at the hands of her now ex boyfriend. He liked her a lot, but she could never know what he did for a living. He thought he could balance it out. Score a big payday here and there. Enough to get by, and make his own schedule for being with her when she wasn't working her job.

  The one thing that he really wanted to do with Tam was make slow passionate love to her like she deserved. He could imagine that Darnell just used her for his own pleasure without giving any thought to hers. The Kama Sutra taught that women should enjoy sex as much as men, if not more, and Royce was a firm believer in that. He hadn't known much when Bethany took his virginity, but what he knew now... yes, he would make it memorable for her in the best way possible.

  "Hey, Earth to Royce." Tam said, bringing him out of his reverie.

  "Sorry, was just thinking about something." He said, blushing. "Didn't mean to tune you out."

  "It's ok, sweety." Tam laughed lightly. "Cammie was just telling me how cute she thinks you are."

  Royce's eyes went wide and he blushed even darker crimson.

  "It's true. I think you're cute, and so does Tam." Cammie winked at him and stood up. "And with that, I need to go pick up Nate and get him home. Be good to my baby sister, Royce."

  "I will, Cammie." Royce nodded. "She deserves way better than she was getting from Darnell."

  Cammie looked at Tam. "This boy's a keeper, sis!" She hugged Royce and Tam and let herself out.

  "Umm, what just happened?" Royce asked as he looked at Tam.

  "My sister just gave you her seal of approval, hon." Tam grinned and came into his arms. He held her close, kissing her tenderly.

  He broke the kiss after a long moment and looked her in the eyes. "Tam, if you want to be with me tonight, I have protection if you need me to wear it." He'd bought a box of condoms after he got to L.A. in anticipation of all the women he was going to score, but as luck would have it, he hadn't so much as thought about another woman after he'd helped Tam with her groceries the first time.

  "I do, but that won't be necessary. I'm on the Shot, and I trust that you're clean." She said. "Besides, I love the feel of hot cum shooting up in me."

  "Umm, wow! I mean, you do?" Royce was suddenly nervous again.

  "Yeah, but after that rat cheated on me a few months back, I've made him wear condoms and pull out when he comes. Shit, he hasn't even touched me in a month, so chances are he was cheatin' again." Tam pulled him close, kissing him again passionately.

  Their tongues danced together again, caressing and exploring each other's mouth. 'Damn, this white boy can kiss!' Tam thought to herself. His tongue was gently insistent in her mouth, caressing her tongue. Her pussy was getting wetter as his hands reached behind her and down, squeezing her beautiful bubble butt. She was grinding her pussy against the swollen cock in his jeans, whimpering as she felt the size and thickness of him through the material.

  She broke the kiss momentarily. "Let's go, baby." Tam said seductively, her eyes full of need and lust as she rubbed the bulge in his pants. "I need you in me."

  She backed up a step and took his hand, leading Royce to his bedroom. Royce went willingly, looking forward to pleasuring this beautiful lady in every way possible.

  As they entered the bedroom, Royce felt his confidence returning in full, and stopped her. When she looked at him quizzically, he smiled and took her in his arms. He kissed her lips lightly, then her jaw and neck. He slowly backed her toward the bed, and she sat down as the backs of her legs hit the edge of it.

  Royce looked down at her and then knelt in front of her. He leaned up and kissed her some more as his hands went to the hem of her tank top. He pulled upward, and she lifted her arms to allow him to remove her shirt. Her smooth underarms looked so sexy, with not even the hint of stubble from shaving. He inhaled her natural scent, and licked her there, causing her to shudder and her eyes to close at the sensation of his tongue on her skin.

  As soon as her shirt was off and Royce saw her breasts, his tongue traced its way from her armpit to her chest. Her breasts were glorious, with dark chocolate nipples and half dollar sized areolae around them. Her nipples were already bullet hard, and he teased them with his tongue.

  "Ooohhh, YES, Baby!" Tam gasped as he licked her nipples teasingly before gently suckling first one, then the other into his mouth. Her back arched forward, thrusting her chest into his face as her hands roamed over his back and down, grabbing the hem of his t-shirt and urging him to let her remove it.

  Royce backed off of her breasts while she tugged his shirt up and off of him. Once his torso was bare, he went right back to ministering to her breasts, and tongued her nipples again as he squeezed with his hands, feeling their firm softness. Tam moaned loudly as he licked, sucked, and squeezed her breasts. Her eyes closed in ecstasy as her new Man worshipped her breasts with obvious relish and more expertise than she was
expecting.

  Her pussy was drenched, pulsing and aching with need in sweet agony as this boy... this white boy... was seeing to her needs in a way that Darnell never had. Tam's hands came up and encircled the back of his head, holding his face on her breast as if he was going to stop at any second.

  Royce had no intention of stopping, however. He licked, sucked, and nibbled each of her dark nipples in turn, going back and forth every few minutes, squeezing with a hand where his mouth wasn't. Tweaking whichever nipple wasn't in his mouth between thumb and forefinger of his other hand. He reveled in the soft warmth of her cocoa brown skin as he ministered to her breasts, only letting up when her gasps and moans turned to steady panting as her nipples became super sensitive. He pulled back and raised up slightly to kiss her.

  Tam was beside herself after the long worshipping Royce had given to her breasts. When his lips met hers, she devoured him hungrily as she sucked his tongue into her mouth. Her hands roamed up and down his toned back, and one hand came up to the back of his neck as she moaned her need into his mouth.

  Royce's hands went to the waistband of her short shorts, unbuttoning and unzipping her. She wore only black lace panties underneath, and she lifted her butt to allow him to remove them. Her neatly trimmed bush, waxed below and on the sides of her bikini line, was a nearly perfect arrowhead triangle pointing directly down to Heaven.

  He could smell her arousal as he slowly dragged one finger up between her soaked pussy lips. Her breath caught in her throat as he teased her, and she nearly screamed. He broke their kiss and smiled at her. The look of wanton lust on her face begged him to continue, so he pushed her back onto the middle of the bed and crawled up over her. Her hands went to the button of his jeans, and unzipped him as their tongues danced together. She pushed downward, and he aided her in removing his jeans as he kicked off his sneakers. He then laid her back as he kissed slowly down the length of her beautiful cocoa brown body.

  Once again, he reveled in the perfection of her warm soft skin on his lips and tongue, and under his roaming hands as he explored her. He paid close attention to her reactions wherever he touched her, remembering and learning what she liked more and where he had touched her to elicit those reactions.