Chapter 17.

A beautiful awakening.

When both lovers opened their eyes, Cristian's gaze immediately found the warmth in Fred's, the emotions seemed like fireworks that began to blossom and the way they both touched each other's faces showed the affection they felt for each other.

Jackson wasn't there to ruin the moment, there was no one who could steal this beautiful moment, it was just them lowering the bare sheets and their legs intertwined with the words.

I love you coming out of Fred's mouth warmed not only Cristian's heart, but even his mind, freeing it from that prison of the silent and unknown memory of his first time.

Cristian felt his lips tremble and tickle as he approached the relaxed face, to melt into a kiss that wasn't passionate, but that did contain feeling and sweetness in it; and the way the other person responded was only the affirmation that they were both sailing the same boat.

When a call from Angel suddenly came into Fred's phone, Cristian immediately fell silent and his lover answered the call in which Angel asked him how they had gotten to his home because he didn't remember anything, and Fred answered that they didn't remember much about how they got him to his home, either and that they were just starting to wake up, that made Angel's ears angry who asked: ¿wake up? ¿Are you and that boy in the same place?

That broke the glass and made Fred realize what he had just done and trying to fix it he said: Don't think bad, I'm sleeping in the living room of this student's house, I've just heard him come down the stairs while I'm talking to you, so I guess everything is okay.

Angel listened and blindly believed what Fred said, but what he didn't know is that the way he had said it had started to change Cristian's appearance, who felt like everything he had lived was denied by the other party.

 As if it were a dirty secret that shouldn't be revealed, and seeing how the 34-year-old man got up and left the room putting on some boxers, made it more than clear that the feelings were only his, because the other part may not have been as cruel and merciless as Jackson, but it wasn't all that good.

Some tears began to escape from the corner of his eyes, and looking back a little at the night before, he wished that maybe it hadn't happened, because if this was the way Fred saw their relationship, it would have been better not to have met him, but his voice in his heart told him not to think of him like that, because maybe he had referred to him that way not only to protect Cristian's physical integrity, but to protect his job.

That he would open his eyes and see how much he loved him. ¿Or had he not seen love when they woke up and their eyes connected?...And his body was evidence of that. 

Maybe he was just letting himself be carried away by what his mind said and not by what his heart said…