Chapter 43

• Inside the car, Jonathan felt his body completely relax as he came into contact with the soft beige seat of Elliot's car. Spending the weekend with him went beyond all his expectations, since when he remembered the previous days, he felt he could barely express a fraction of his feelings due to the complicated situation they had been in for a few months.
• Feelings and desires held back for the greater good, to prevent a tragedy that could spread throughout the local media if they found out that the young CEO of Empire, surprisingly, had gotten involved with his youngest intern. Jonathan could imagine the headlines reproducing the sensationalist and homophobic headlines portraying the affair between two men, as well as being forced to forever carry the labels given by such defamation. They were frightening possibilities and difficult to think about, even to digest, since it wasn't the first time he'd had to deal with this kind of comment.
• Together, side by side, they watched the driver drive diligently, listening to the playlist that the younger man controlled via his cell phone. Music was a shared passion that only brought them closer together. It was possible to feel a bit of each other's history in each track played after the long moments they had shared, and inevitably, they remembered how much they identified with the song "For Tonight," recalling the moment they heard it one night when Jonathan was especially upset because he felt the inadequate feelings growing inside him, caused by the blond.