On the verge of losing everything

Chapter 48

Max POV

Two weeks later

The last two weeks have been the worst days of my life, but I've still been trying to pull through, and with Ariel by my side, I've been able to hold my head up all this while. Ariel has also been emotionally down, and couldn't step out of the house since reporters wouldn't stop coming here and waiting to take words from her. Everything is messed up, but I'm trying to fix things. The rumor is still trending on the internet even after two weeks, and someone has been fuelling it, I guess.

"Are you ok?" Ariel's voice snaps me back to reality, and I raise my gaze from my phone to find her standing in front of the bathroom door, wearing her lingerie.

"Yes, I'm fine. What were you doing?" I ask her after I scan her with my eyes.

"I went to shower. What were you staring at?" She asks as she walks over to me, but I quickly put my phone away. I was going through the comment section of the post on the internet, and boiling at the horrible