Donny leaves pretty quick after that, and Atlas takes fast showers. Salem knows it won't take long before he's out, and the guy will likely want to have a conversation about... recent events. No doubt he wants to know where exactly he and Salem stand, relationship-wise, and Salem would like to avoid that talk. Mostly because he honestly has no idea.
Salem wants Atlas so f*****g bad, and he always has. He can't even deny that to himself anymore. Salem wants to be with him more than anything in the world, and he was able to convince himself otherwise for awhile. All the times he thought Atlas was unattainable, he would lie to himself until he believed he didn't want it either.
There's no use, now. Especially since Atlas has nothing holding him back anymore. Salem obviously can't afford to
