When he got back to his apartment, he went inside and discovered that Tam hadn't returned yet. He had a moment, so he went to the bedroom and put the briefcase back behind the loose piece of wall. He would count his take the next time Tam went out.
He was sitting in the living room watching the News when Tam came in with a smile on her lovely face. He looked at her and smiled back. "Hey, Beautiful." He said as he admired her.
"Hi, baby." She replied and leaned down to kiss him. "How did the job interview go?" She asked.
"They said they'd get back to me." He shrugged. "I think I impressed them, though." He handed her one of his new cards.
"Pretty nice, baby!" She grinned as she plopped down beside him. "So, Cat. Are you going to hit someone else tonight?"
Royce's blood ran cold as she said those words.
"How did you know?" Royce asked softly, refusing to meet her gaze.
"I figured it out. Were you ever going to tell me?" Tam replied and put her hand on his cheek.
"Yes, when I trusted you more." He gulped as his worst fear had been realized. He'd been so careful. Nobody even suspected him, but here was the woman he was falling for, and she had figured it out within a few days of close contact with him.
"When would that be?" She asked archly.
"Tam, we've really known each other for only a few days." He said, then took a deep breath and continued. "I wanted to tell you, but I was afraid. Ok?"
"Afraid of what?" She asked, a concerned tone in her voice.
"That you would turn me in to the cops." He said, looking away from her.
"Why do you think I would do that?"
"Because unlike me, you're an upstanding citizen who doesn't justify stealing by acting as a vigilante." He snapped, looking at her with a fire in his steel gray eyes.
Tam, to his surprise, laughed musically at that. "Oh, honey. If you only knew."
Royce blinked a few times. "What do you mean by that?" He asked in an accusing tone.
"Have you heard of black_fire?" She asked with a smirk.
"No, should I have?" He replied with a puzzled look on his face.
"That's exactly how it should be. Nobody knows who black_fire is." She pronounced it 'black underscore fire'.
"Let me guess. A hacker?" He smirked.
"You're lookin' at her." She smirked right back.
Royce laughed. "Oh, you had me going there for a minute!"
"How else could I do this?" She opened her laptop and brought up his account information at Golden State Credit Union. She turned the screen to show him.
Royce stared in disbelief at that. "Ok, what are you going to do with that?" He asked stiffly. "If you are going to blackmail me, I'll just turn myself in and take my chances with the cops."
"Jesus, Royce! Calm down!" She sighed in exasperation. "I'm not like the people you can't trust, ok? Just trust me!"
Royce took several deep breaths. "Ok, I'm listening. What is the point to all this?"
"The point, Sherlock, is that we now know each other's deepest darkest secrets. Every relationship should be built on trust, and now I'm showing you that you can trust me, and I'm showing you that I trust you too." She explained it to the dawning comprehension in his eyes. He closed his eyes and gave her a laughing sigh of relief.
He looked up at her, smiling, and pulled her face to his for a long lingering kiss. Her tongue met his, tasting, touching, caressing, dancing together. Her full dark lips met his in a true lovers' kiss that spoke to their souls.
* * *
Darnell plowed into the white cunt beneath him, pounding her harder and harder as Celestia screamed his name over and over.
"Fuck yeah, bitch! Whose pussy is this?" He demanded as he fucked her harder and harder, working out his anger from that morning.
"Yours, baby! Fuck this pussy! It's your pussy, baby!" Celestia shouted as the big black dick plundered her pulsating pussy.
That did it for him, and Darnell shot his wad into her, then pulled out just as she was on the cusp of coming herself. "Ahhh, thanks, bitch." He said without ceremony and started dressing again after wiping his cock on her thigh.
"What the hell, D? I was this close!" She put her thumb and forefinger about a half inch apart to show him how close she'd been to coming.
"Not my problem, bitch. That's my pussy now, and don't you fuckin' forget it." He sneered at the white ho on the table. He finished dressing and walked out of her dressing room, leaving her high and dry with a pussy full of his cum.
"Fucking asshole!" She muttered under her breath as she went and grabbed a washcloth and held it under the running water in her sink. She wiped herself clean, then grabbed a douche and headed into the bathroom to wash him out of her. "That fucking son of a bitch." She snarled. "I'm going to teach him a fucking lesson!"
Darnell, having gotten his rocks off, made the rounds at the club, greeting his team of Enforcers. He knew they were loyal to Mr. Wolfe, but he had to see if any of them were loyal to him more than the Boss. He had taken a cue from his Boss and paid them from his own paycheck, and gave them the run of any girls he hadn't claimed for himself already. He had twenty men under his command, and slowly sowed the seeds of discord about how their Boss didn't treat them as well as he did. He reminded them that almost a quarter of their paychecks came out of his own pockets.
Mr. Wolfe had always paid his Enforcers well, and always gave the Chief Enforcer a hefty raise. He could well afford to pay his boys and still have some left over to live the life he wanted. This was about more than money, though. More than respect, even. This was about power to Darnell. If he could get rid of the Boss and his enemies at the same time, all the better. His plan was coming along nicely, and he smiled as he thought about giving the orders instead of taking them.
* * *
As Tam and Royce lay in bed together, breathing heavily after another round of torrid lovemaking, Royce finally broke the silence. "So, you're a cyber vigilante?" He asked with a smile.
"Something like that." She giggled, remembering their conversation on the couch. "I started off just in it for myself, but I felt like shit ripping off people who didn't deserve it. So I shifted my focus." She shrugged and held him close. "Now I go after corrupt companies and criminal organizations."
"Oh, like Mr. Wolfe?" Royce raised an eyebrow at her.
"Hell no! Not that I wouldn't like to, but his IT guy, Ray Hammond, is one of the best around. He's pretty much my equal when it comes to computers." Tam admitted begrudgingly.
"Honestly, as far as crime bosses go, Wolfe isn't all that bad, from what I've heard." Royce said with a shrug as he nuzzled her neck.
"Mmmm, that feels good, baby." Tam replied in a sultry tone. "If you aren't careful, I may just get worked up again."
"That's what I'm counting on, baby girl." He replied in a whisper, kissing her neck and sucking lightly below her ear.
Tam felt the shiver go through her body as her pussy started thrumming with need again. "God, what you do to me, baby!" She exclaimed as his hand went down between her thighs and lightly rubbed her clit.
"Turn over and get on your hands and knees." Royce ordered her sternly.
Tam was slightly taken aback by his forceful tone. "Yes, sir!" She smirked but did as told. Once she was in position, Royce moved up behind her and rubbed the head of his cock up and down between her pussy lips.
"You like that, baby girl?" He asked as he smacked her ass with his free hand.
"Oh! Oh fuck yes, baby! Gimme that fuckstick!" Tam said in an authoritative voice. "Come on, Royce! Give momma that big white dick!"
"You asked for it, sweety!" Royce said as he thrust into her hard and deep, filling her completely in one stroke with his throbbing cock.
As his balls hit her clit, Tam screamed out when he started thrusting faster and faster. He slapped her ass again as he fucked her hard.
"Fuck yes! Spank my ass, baby!" She shouted, and in answer, Royce smacked her other butt cheek harder than before.
/> "GOD YES! I need a good spankin', baby! I've been a naughty girl!" She proclaimed.
"Good, because I'm going to spank you until you beg me to stop!" Royce sneered, enjoying the fact that she loved what he was doing to her.
As he fucked and spanked her, Tam's pussy was going into overdrive. She was wetter than she'd ever been before, and every smack of his hand on her bubble butt only intensified the feelings in her pussy. She was so close already, and what he said next pushed her over the edge.
"You like it when I fuck your hot cunt and spank you big firm ass, baby? You fuckin' love it, don't you! How'd you like it if I fucked your ass, baby girl?" He said, talking dirty to her.
"FUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK YYYYYYEESSSSS III'MMMM COOOMMMINNNNG!" She screamed, her pussy clamping down on his shaft.
The convulsing pussy around him was too much for Royce, and he felt the familiar sensation of his balls tightening as his cock swelled inside her.
"SO AM I, BABY GIRL!" He shouted as he exploded into her, firing jet after hot jet of sperm deep inside her greedy grasping hungry cunt hole.
Tam felt it when he came, felt his pulsing cock as he ejaculated rope after thick hot rope into her. The sensation of his cock and cum inside her, and the burning of her hot ass, pushed her orgasm into another and yet another.
She collapsed forward onto the bed as her hands and knees gave out, and her pussy contracted around him, pulling him down on top of her.
"OOH GOD SOOOO GOOD!" Tam shouted as her third orgasm finally started to abate.
They lay there like that for a while, his cock still embedded inside her. Finally, he rolled off and collapsed beside her, and Tam felt his hot cum starting to leak out of her. She quickly put her hand under her pussy, then got up and grabbed her panties. She put them on, trapping his hot cream inside her and showed him as she patted her gusset. "I love the feel of you in me, baby." She declared in a low sexy tone as she laid back down and kissed him lovingly.
"Tam, I love coming inside you. It just feels right." Royce said as he blushed. "I love everything about you, sweetheart. You're sweet, beautiful, intelligent, and oh my God, you are so sexy!" His words came out in a rush.
As much as they'd done together in recent days, his words still took her off guard. 'He's in love with me? He's IN LOVE WITH ME!' Tam thought, a smile growing on her face. She'd been having similar feelings for him, and with their confessions and the new trust between them, she was allowing her feelings to blossom as well.
"I love you too, Royce." She said softly, as if raising her voice would break the wonderful dream she had been in since the other night.
Royce's grin nearly split his face completely, and he pulled her to him, kissing her with white hot passion. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he broke the kiss. "Hold on! I completely forgot!" He laughed, and before she could say anything, he jumped out of bed, still buck naked, and went into his closet. She couldn't see him, but he returned with a briefcase.
"From the job I did this afternoon after court." He explained, and she laughed at his audacity. After their court date, he had gone and robbed somebody.
He entered the combination and opened the briefcase, pulling out the files first. "California State Senator Lisa Keen." He said. "It seems she's been a very bad girl."
Tam knew the name. Lisa Keen was on several committees, and although the Newspapers were convinced she was hiding something, they could never get any evidence on her.
Then he pulled out the cash. Stacks of 100 dollar bills. "See, I've found this to be true. When dirty politicians and businessmen get found out, they have to have a backup plan to get out of the country. After the Bernie Madoff fiasco a few years back, EVERY corrupt big wig has an escape plan." He tossed a fake driver's license and passport onto the bed with the files beside the money. "Pay cash for a one-way ticket to a non-extradition country, change into a wig or something..." He pointed out her picture with a blonde wig to cover her natural brunette hair... "and yeah. Disappear and never be seen again where the US Government can reach them."
Tam laughed lightly. "Ok, smarty. How did you know all this?" She asked with a grin, shaking her head in disbelief.
"I read a book some guy wrote a couple years ago on what he would do if he ever found himself in Bernie's position." Royce shrugged. "I read a lot at the orphanage when I wasn't honing my body and skills. Sweetheart, I've wanted to do this since I was a kid. Some movie I watched where the main character was a cat burglar. He made really good money."
Tam laughed again, and pictured in her mind young Shiloh Royce, training himself physically, reading books on how to commit crimes and get away with them. Learning to use lockpicks and other instruments used for the art of stealing. She remembered his fight with Darnell, and thought he'd moved like an MMA fighter, dodging and weaving and striking quickly and with force.
"You know, that actually makes sense." Tam said and chuckled. "Baby, you are one of a kind."
"So are you, Tam." He said and kissed her lightly. "Now, let's see what kind of haul I got here..." He quickly started counting the stacks of bills. "Fifty Grand!" He grinned. "Now THAT's a payday!" $50,000 could go a long way in a third world country with no extradition treaty with the United States, and Tam had to agree. As far as the US was concerned, though, it was enough to live fairly comfortably for about six to ten months.
"Aren't you worried that your bank is going to report your deposits to the Feds?" Tam asked.
"That's why I do it in increments. In the morning, I'm going to buy six or seven money orders. Golden State doesn't report deposits of less than 10K at a time. I usually get 5K money orders, and deposit them two or three times a day after a few hours in between." Royce said. "It works."
Tam saw the logic in that, and realized just how smart her boyfriend was. 'My boyfriend, and I feel really good with him!' She thought to herself. 'I really do love him!' She realized at that moment. She'd already said the words, but her thoughts were now all about him. She had never felt this good with Darnell, even before he'd become the asshole he was today. Behind the tough and cool façade, carefully hidden from view, was a genuinely good guy who cared about those he considered friends and loved ones. She could tell that there weren't very many of those in his life, growing up with a high turnover rate in the orphanage. New kids would come in, older kids would be adopted... And that would be her next inquiry, to the orphanage itself. St. Agatha's would have some questions to answer.
* * *
Mr. Wolfe looked up from the latest reports on his new housing development as Darnell knocked on the open door frame and came in as Wolfe nodded with a smile.
"What can I do for you, D?" He asked.
"Hey, Boss. Jared told me to clear it with you first, so I'm asking your permission to find out where that Royce kid works and pay him a little visit outside the restraint zone from the order." Darnell asked, keeping his voice as level as possible.
Wolfe sat back and steepled his fingers as he looked at his Chief Enforcer. He narrowed his eyes in thought. "Why, D?"
"Because he made me look like a fool, and because there's more to him than most see on the surface. I read his file from where he grew up, and some shit just doesn't jibe. As much as I hate to admit it, that kid's got skills. I just want to have a talk with him is all." Darnell said, then continued after taking a breath. "Hell, he might be an asset."
Wolfe raised an eyebrow. "He's that good?"
"He knocked me down the other day, sir." Darnell bit his pride and admitted it.
Wolfe smiled. "You know what? That's not a bad recommendation. I think I'd like to meet Mr. Royce. Make the offer, and bring him to me if he accepts. Ask him politely, but if he says no, leave it at that and let him go about his business. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, sir." Darnell nodded.
"Good. I hope you succeed, but if not, don't worry about it." Wolfe nodded and dismissed his Number 1 Enforcer.
Darnell was smiling to himself as he walked out of Mr. Wolfe's office.
Sure enough, he came out shortly before 9 AM, and Darnell had to close his eyes when he saw Tam in just her robe kissing him goodbye at the door. He felt his stomach knot up in jealousy, but realized he had to see this through. 'Fuckin' white boy ain't gonna know what hit his sorry ass!' He thought.
The Royce kid was dressed in a nice polo shirt and khakis with all black sneakers, and he got into Tam's car. 'She gave that fuck the keys?!" He gritted his teeth as he saw that. He had to calm himself with visions of Royce dead along with Mr. Wolfe. It would be Darnell's job as Chief Enforcer to take over his deceased Boss's business.
That was the reason he'd brought Hook and Slake. They were 100% loyal to Darnell over and above whatever loyalty they felt for Wolfe. They would do what needed to be done to 'convince' Royce to come to the party. But for now, they were going to play nice.
* * *
Royce drove the two miles to the closest convenience store that sold Money Orders, and purchased 6 of them for less than 10K each. He deposited one in his account at the closest Golden State branch, and decided to check out the nearest Ducati dealership for his dream bike.
The Ducati Il Mostro 696 at the dealer was listed at $9000 dollars, and Royce talked with the saleslady for a while. He used his charm to haggle five hundred off the price tag, and she was more than aware that the cute guy in front of her was young enough to be her son. She kept blushing at his compliments anyway, and even wondered what he would be like in bed.
When the paperwork was drawn up, and he gave her a large and the small money orders, and she handed him his change. He shopped for a leather jacket and helmet with the change, and after he'd paid for it all, she told him that his motorcycle would be ready in an hour. He left the purchases with her to be picked up with his bike, thanked her, and left.
He was walking back to the car when he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He looked around and saw three men walking towards him. He recognized the one in the middle as Darnell, and he made a run for the car at a dead sprint. Darnell and his boys were sprinting too, and they reached the car at about the same time.
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