Free Silver & Black by Tyler May Page B

He wants to wait until I can give him all of me ,” I explain.
    “What?” Levi questions like this is the most taboo thing he’s ever heard. “Is he gay? Are you sure that he’s not playing you?” He’s rambling through his high.
    “Oh, he is gay for sure. He kissed me and had me begging, but he’s different.”
    “Mmmm―different can be good, sweetie!” He quirkily smiles.
    “He offered me a job because he said he wants to ‘help me’.” I use finger quotes as I get up to get the envelope out of my bag to show him. “Here, read this.” I watch him scan the contract and he gasps, only how Levi could, every other line. “What do you think he wants out of it?”
    “Fuck, honey, he wants you and it looks like he’s willing to pay anything to get it. One hundred thousand dollars? You have to be shitting me!” He fans himself with the contract. “Oh, God, you have yourself a sugar daddy, you lucky asshole.”
    “I don’t want, or need, a sugar daddy.” He has me laughing. I love him. “It’s just weird because he’s so hard some of the time and then soft the next.” Levi makes some sexual comment from my description. “No, hornball. I mean―how do I explain this?” I turn and face him. “He wants me. He makes that perfectly clear and he is possessive and so sexy doing it. It actually makes me excited. One minute he’s like that dominating guy from that book and then the next he’s like Don Juan. He’s not consistent, but in a good way. He gives both equally or at least that’s the way he’s coming off so far.”
    Levi covers his mouth in a huff of excitement. “Oh my God, he’s Richard Gere.”
    “What?”
    “He’s Richard Gere from the movie Pretty Woman . Oh, my God, honey you’re Julia Roberts, You’re ‘ Pretty woman’ . ” He gasps with excitement and holds his mouth. He’s so crazy.
    “Are you saying I’m a hooker,” I joke with a laugh.
    “No, no. He’s willing to pay whatever he needs to be close to you. It’s utterly romantic.”
    “Or utterly insulting. I’m not a hooker?” Although I like his idea better. “I guess I need to have a talk with him.”
    “Don’t be too hard on him. I think he really is trying to help. Maybe he’s going at it the wrong way, but he seems to be used to the power. Teach him how to balance, honey. You like him don’t you?”
    “I do like him. I mean I just met him. Is it sad to like the attention? I really never had that.”
    “There is nothing wrong with that. It means that you’ll guard your heart. Take your time, Grey. If it’s meant to be he’ll come to your apartment hanging out of the sunroof of the white limo holding a rose,” he says in reference to the scene from the movie. Levi is right. I think Silver and I just need to balance each other. We still have a lot to learn about one another. Right now though, I can’t worry about that. I need to study, so I can ‘get to know’ Silver tonight. I pull out my book and start to scan the page hoping to retain what I need to ace this test tomorrow morning.
    Several hours go by, I’ve been diligently studying. Levi is crashed on the couch next to me. I need a break. My brain is beginning to fry . I take the new smartphone Silver gave me out of my bag. I scroll through all the apps that he’s saved on the phone. He’s thought of everything. I click to connect to the internet. Maybe I need to do a little research on Silver. Only fair, right. I type Brian Silver in the search engine and an entire screen of options comes up. Clicking link after link, I finally find an interview he gave back in 2008. It looks like he had donated a large amount of money to The Children’s Institute for the Blind and Deaf. Another link shows another donation to the Children’s Hospital in New York and a larger donation to the research fund for Independent Medical Advances and Research (IMAR). Don’t know what that is, but it sounds important.
    He’s already told me his parents taught him to