Chapter Nine
The weight of public scrutiny pressing down like a vise.
My voice shook as I spoke, barely keeping the panic at bay. “And what do I have to do? My fans are against me. How do I keep getting work from my clients? How?”
Noah leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed, a calm expression on his face that did nothing to soothe my anxiety. “I’ll just call Leo,” he said, his voice steady. “He can release a statement to clear the air about what happened, and that he caused all this.”
I turned to him, incredulous. “And do you think that’s going to happen? Do you think he will do that?”
Noah didn’t flinch, didn’t even hesitate. “He will. I know he would.”His certainty unsettled me.
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to believe him, I wish to believe him . But the reality of Leo’s betra
