Chapter 79 - Scandal

Is there really something wrong with that, Andrzej thought. Why can't two people just be together if they're okay? Why is the world so insistent on taking people's happiness away?

It is true that Andrzej does not love Dominik romantically, but his company is very nice to him and his fate is dear. Friendship and devotion, warmth and closeness, sometimes erotic tension, or the sexual act itself with mutual consent and mutual pleasure. Who can it bother? It is true that children will not be ...

The usual phraseology made Andrzej pursed his lips.

Right, from this will not be any children. Dominik is still very young and does not feel the need for fatherhood, but someday a day may come when he wants to hug his own child. If he stays true to his habits, hr never will.

And if Andrzej will jump into his bed, the boy won't even think to go out with the girl.

Martynka stood before the eyes of Andrzej. The girl wasn't his blood, but in many ways she was like his. Her real father abandoned Paulina, the girl's mother, when she told him she was pregnant. Recently, Nowicki found out that he even hit his pregnant girlfriend. For this brutal behavior, Paulina denied him any rights to the child - not that for those few years he had been trying hard to get them. Andrzej even wanted to marry his friend, so she did not have to be a single mother, but she decided that she did not want a marriage of convenience. She prefers to wait for true love. However, Nowicki himself became the girl's godfather and in every situation he acted as if he was her born parent.

Martynka was enough for him alone. He loved this little girl with all his heart, and even if Paulina got married now, no one would take his right to this love.

Dominik, on the other hand, was quite alone. It would be tragic in its own way if this wonderful young man could not experience the benefits of having his own family.

So what is Andrzej still doing in his bed? He should leave immediately.

Only his skin is so soft and the smell so captivating. Indeed, the warmth of another person is a hundred times more pleasant than that of a blanket, a flame, or even the sun. He had so rarely experienced such a pleasant and peaceful closeness. In fact, he didn't even remember ever having such an opportunity.

Dominik Śliwiński was the loneliest man Nowicki knew, but at that moment the photographer realized that he was suffering from the same disease.

The discovery did not cheer him up.

He knew that at the moment it would be hard for him to find female love for himself. Ever since he met Dominik and discovered all his secrets, he became a part of this man's life and his only friend. And now Śliwiński needed friends in particular.

They met quite unconventionally. Andrzej, working as a paparazzi, was commissioned to take interesting and most compromising photos of the rising star of Polish cinema - Dominik Śliwiński. A twenty-four-year-old man, due to his beauty, charm and talent, was the idol of the vast majority of women of virtually all ages. People were curious about who he really was and demanded to reveal some of the private life of this very secretive man.

Nowicki never liked his job. He was a gifted photographer who won two prestigious awards in college, but his talent did not exchanged into money and he had to work anywhere to pay off his student loan and raise something for his own studio. He reluctantly accepted the contract and spent several extremely boring days observing Śliwiński. Yes, the actor was extremely beautiful for a guy (in fact, even more than one woman could envy him his beauty), but his life was so uninteresting that it was almost impossible to bear.

By the time.

On a hot August day, when Andrzej was planning to tear spider's legs out of boredom, the photographer witnessed an intriguing event - the scene of sexual intercourse between Dominik Śliwiński and his manager, Marek Marczak. Surprised, Nowicki took a series of really good photos, glad to have bomb material.

His joy did not last long. While browsing through the pictures, Andrzej found one that caught his attention and prevented him from revealing the actor's scandalous secret. Dominik, immortalized in it, presented such a wonderfully beautiful and inspired picture that the artist in the heart of the photographer refused to hurt such an extraordinary creature. As the disclosure of Śliwiński's sexual orientation would at this point cancel his career, Nowicki did not decide to submit these photos for publication. But that didn't mean he couldn't make money on them. It wasn't a day before he made the decision to sell the erotic photos to the actor himself.

Only he still had nothing for the publishing house and the boss insisted on the results.

Andrzej resumed the observation, knowing full well that there would be no more sensation.

Yet he was wrong.

What he witnessed a few days later was a criminal case.

Afraid of the scandal, the actor asked his lover to temporarily stop seeing each other. Marczak's reaction was brutal, almost animalistic, and Nowicki could not stand by and watch. He went to help Śliwiński and saved him literally at the last moment, although some damage had already been done. In such circumstances, Dominik and Andrzej met face to face for the first time.

From the very beginning of their relationship, Nowicki knew that the actor was gay, but he never suspected that they could end up in bed together. Andrzej was not interested in men and he never felt excited at the sight of them. It was Dominik that made his heart beat faster and erotic thoughts came at strange moments. It was the actor who, whispering sweet words, dragged him to bed and almost begged for sex. Andrzej got involved in Dominik's world without realizing the possible consequences that became more and more dangerous for both of them. The young actor had already confessed his love to him and Nowicki believed that he had done it completely sincerely.

It wasn't good.

Andrzej knew that the modern world would not forgive homosexuality, even to Śliwiński. Thousands of female fans will be too disappointed that there is no chance of them continuing to worship him. Love will turn into hate and the writings will begin to tear Dominik's private and professional life to shreds. Everyone will say that he got the roles through the bed, and although his talent was undeniable, he suddenly ceased to count. The only thing that matters is that he was the lover of his manager. And as unfair as it was, no one would care about his true talent or the amount of work he put in to create his roles. It will not be Dominik that counts, only sensation. Wolves and hyenas will attack him and he, with his sensitivity, will be completely defenseless against them.

Especially now, when the difficult parting with Marczak has almost led the actor to a nervous breakdown and his body to exhaustion.

Dominik slept soundly and deeply. It seemed as if there was no anxiety or sadness in him at that moment. Even his subconscious seemed to be the undisturbed surface of a mountain lake. Andrzej wasn't sure it was good for his arms to do this to the actor, but he couldn't refuse him. He just couldn't. Especially since he himself slept that night like a baby.

But it was necessary to get up.

Andrzej gently stroked Dominik's hair and pulled out from under him. He did it so subtly that the actor did not wake up. He took his clothes and left.

It wasn't until breakfast that he looked at the gossip press. He did not like to do it, but this activity has become his habit since Dominik entered his life for good. His role was to protect the actor from what he himself represented so recently, i.e. from media intrusiveness and gossip. He had to be up to date to react, so he spent a few minutes on it every day.

The bread rose in his throat, almost choking him. A bright headline in the eyes of the circles: 'Dominik Śliwiński receives letters with threats!'

He coughed.

Where does the magazine get this information from?

He looked at the article.

'As our sources report, the popular actor Dominik Śliwiński receives threatening letters. Their content remains unknown to us, but their weight must be high, because our idol, after reading one of them, suffered a shock that almost ended in hospitalization! As if that were not enough, he also receives gruesome parcels containing dead animals!

Has Śliwiński become a victim of a dangerous stalker?

Where are the police then? Why is nobody doing anything to protect the actor from a dangerous madman?

We urgently demand that the police take action. We do not want to wait with folded hands until the psychopath decides to take a step more serious than the threats themselves ...'

Goddamn it all!