Fortunately, he was kept busy with endless meetings and presentations at work while Hugo himself was preoccupied with one business engagement after another. The two of them managed to keep in touch with each other via text messages, phone calls, and video calls, but those weren’t the same as meeting up face-to-face. Their next date, when it arrived, was on Saturday that week. Javier trembled in barely-contained excitement and anticipation when Hugo arrived in front of his apartment building to fetch him in a different car from the one they had ridden in the previous Sunday.