Jessie Porter had avoided admitted it to himself ... how had Milo just ... known? Milo Trieste seemed to be able to see all the way through to the real Jessie Porter, and he somehow actually ... liked it.
Jessie sometimes wondered if Milo was a mind reader. No, he had just lived an almost identical pain ... different weapons, same targets ... and he recognized all of the symptoms ...
Jessie had learned a long time ago that you couldn't always have what you wanted. Especially when you were a black man trying to make it in this world.
Milo didn't want to hear that they were from different worlds. They were both black, they were both men, and they were both gay. How much more similar could you get that that?
Jessie wanted to walk away because Milo had money and then he's angry when Milo gets rid of most of it. The man needed to make up his mind because Jessie was the answer to every dream Milo had ever had about family and love and he wasn't interested in giving that up without a fight. They had enough things they had to fight in this world. He wanted them to fight together.
A myriad of shared life experiences had brought them together ... hope for a better future kept them together.
