Race With a Heart
Chapter 90: The Power of Love

Chapter 90: The Power of Love

In fact, Martin himself did not know if he himself would need anything more. What is this "something more?"

Did he want to kiss Steve in public? Absolutely not! He didn’t do this with Ami, and when Heather manifested that they were a loving couple, he felt uncomfortable.

Did he want to walk Steve around town holding hands and resting his head on his shoulder? Definitely not! He preferred to be in some secluded place at the time and put his head not on Paxton’s shoulder but between his legs...

But Martin certainly wanted to be able to do so. He wanted to be able to go out into the street and smile at his man lovingly without fear that people would look at him with dislike. He wanted to be able to allow himself to make small gestures of affection if he felt the urge to do so, instead of being pointed at as a freak of nature.

But wait a minute, couldn’t he actually do this?

At this point, Martin looked around the restaurant room and noticed two men who were clearly having a romantic dinner. They smiled tenderly at each other and even fed the other one with a fork. They behaved like a typical, ordinary couple in love in the world, and no one paid any attention to them. They were just natural.

Martin blushed and looked away.

So what is the truth? Are gays so severely discriminated against or accepted?

"Kevin ... you think me and Steve should come out?" Martin shyly asked for advice.

"I think it is only your decision. If any of you feel the need to do so because you think you are living a lie, you should discuss it well with each other and, yes, come out. If you want to be very public with yourself, then yes. If you prefer to be intimate with each other, like Jack and me, flaunting is pointless. Love, whether for a person of the other or the same sex, is not a crime, it is something beautiful but also a very private matter. It is up to you to decide whether you want to keep this privacy or disclose it to the world. "

"Yes, you are right," Martin agreed. "We’re such a new couple that we haven’t had time to talk about a lot of things yet, but I know I don’t want to hurt Steve’s career."

"You mean a scandal?" Kevin guessed.

"Yes," admitted Martin sadly.

"If the media is favorable to Steve and describes your relationship in a positive way, his reputation should not suffer. On the contrary, wild Steve Paxton softened under the influence of love. It will sell well. A beautiful story of Beauty and the Beast. But if the media is unfavorable, even if you were a woman, they will make a terrible sensation out of you. Ruthless Steve Paxton took advantage of his idol status and seduced a fan. It’s not even about your gender anymore. This is dating a famous person. "

"Steve is worried that the media will sensationalize me. He wants to protect me. "

"It means he really loves you," smiled Kevin. "I think you came into his life at the best moment."

"Why do you think so?" the boy became interested.

"Because of Hannah," Kevin explained. "I think if you had not been in his life back then, Steve would have had serious problems managing the track right now ..."

Jack Lambert had to admit to himself that he had never seen Steve Paxton so happy. Throughout the journey, throughout training, and even through qualifying, Paxton had never once put on a sour, sulky face. He was so easy going that he surprised even the competition and commentators. He gave the impression that he was a completely different person.

Even so, Jack couldn’t be happy. On the contrary, he felt as if he were more anxious. Lambert knew that on Tuesday morning Karl had a very serious conversation with Steve about the suspicions that someone was targeting Steve. Paxton was pensive and glum for a while - the way he always did, but he appeared in a strangely good mood on the plane. He didn’t smell alcohol, so why such a sudden change? Why did a man who always resembled a gloomy owl suddenly turn into a joyful lark? Something was wrong with that. Steve did not take any forbidden substance, did he?

These kinds of measures only help for a moment, and Steve has been high for two days. Plus, the drivers do blood tests for alcohol and drugs, so Paxton couldn’t be stupid to take something. If he took legally prescribed medication, his mood could improve and persist, the tests might be okay, but there was no chance that he would perform so well on the track. Such drugs affect perceptive abilities, and Steve’s ones were one hundred percent flawless.

There was one more explanation. There was, after all, one natural remedy that allowed people to maintain a great mood and psychophysical condition, but Jack could not imagine that Paxton had taken it. No, it’s impossible! Or maybe?

"Steve, I couldn’t help but notice that you are in a particularly good mood," Lambert joined his colleague in the cafeteria. "Don’t you worry about what Karl told you?"

Paxton shrugged.

"My worrying is not going to help me at all. It can only hurt me. If I don’t know who my enemy is, I can start to see him in every shadow, right? Can I go to the track with this attitude? "

"I don’t think so," Jack admitted. "But you ... you look as if you are radiant and this is very strange in this situation ..."

Paxton looked at his colleague with a bit of curiosity, a bit of surprise.

"Martin didn’t tell you?" He asked.

"About what?" Lambert drank some orange juice.

"We became a couple."

Jack choked on his juice and began to cough. He began to suspect that Steve was in such a good mood because of love, but it was so ridiculous! After all, Steve did his best not to get involved in a relationship with Martin. At one point, Jack even began to suspect that Paxton was incapable of feeling love. After all, there were such people - not only psychopaths, but ordinary people who either experienced one suffering too much or too little love, and therefore could not evoke this feeling. Looking at Martin’s devotion and Steve’s cool demeanor, Lambert was pretty sure that Paxton had become emotionally cold as a result of Hannah’s accident. Lambert felt sorry for the Martin. Boy loved so much and had no chance of affection. So how on earth was Steve saying they were a couple now and acting like he was really in love?

"Sorry, you surprised me," Jack wiped his mouth with a tissue.

"I, myself, too," Steve admitted. "This boy..."

Paxton’s lips lit up with a warm, dreamy smile that Jack had never seen before. A smile that made Steve turn into a very charming man. If Lambert didn’t have Kevin, he might have fallen under the spell of his fellow driver. But Jack had his own love and needed no other. There was no temptation, because if he betrayed his Professor, even in his mind, he would have had a hard time atoning for it.

Looking at Steve, one had the impression that ’the power of love’ was not only a catchy title, but also a reality. There were a few other catchy slogans with love starring, and it seemed like Steve was embodying them all these days.

"When did this happen?" he asked Paxton.

"You act like you don’t know," Steve shook his head. "You know I wanted to offer last week’s victory to Martin. Didn’t you guess that I wanted to do it not as an idol, but as ... a lover? "

Did Jack figure it out? He honestly didn’t remember that. He could have guessed, he had persuaded Steve to just go to Martin and confess his feelings to him, but he absolutely didn’t expect Paxton to actually do that! Jack expected to have to make similar suggestions for him for at least a month before Steve decides to take such a step!

"Did you go to him then?" he asked surprised.

"I went," Steve honestly admitted.

By all the saints of the Lord! Will the sky fall on their heads in a moment? Steve Paxton went to confess his feelings?

Lambert had before him a luminous, smiling proof that everything was going well between the two men, yet he asked:

"And what?"

The question was stupid. If Martin had rejected Steve, the driver wouldn’t have been sitting in front of him so beaming. Plus, there was no way Martin would say "no" to Paxton after so much effort. But Jack was terribly curious about the details.

Paxton blushed suddenly and his smile grew oddly shy.

"And we decided to be together. So I don’t care if anyone is pointing at me. I don’t care if anyone wants to destroy me. As long as I have Martin, I will overcome all difficulties. "

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