Secrets with Wolff - Max Verstappen

16.

Max's POV

Rylee was dating Lando. He was the one she left me for. Why didn't he tell me? I had a suspicion but I forgot about it because Lando never mentioned it.

I sat down in the Red Bull hospitality, I put my head in my hands. A hand on my back made me look up, it was Christian. "Are you okay Max?" I smiled at him and nodded. "Yes just tired though" I put my hand through my hair, fixing it quickly before putting my cap back on. "Then grab a Red Bull, we need you at 100%" I sighed. They always needed me at the top of my game. Last season was so tiring and I guess it was even worse now I was the reigning world champion.

GP walked in the hospitality, he put his hand on my shoulder. "It's time Max" I nodded while getting up. I actually really liked him, he was my race engineer for a couple of years now.
I walked with him to the garage, a few engineers patted me on my back. I loved this team so much. I grabbed my helmet and looked at them.
I definitely wanted to give them a reason to celebrate. I jumped in my car and drove to the grid.

It was time for the anthem of Italy. All the drivers were standing next to each other and of course Lando came to stand next to me. "Rylee really appreciated that you came to check on her but next time don't do it when we're about to have sex" he whispered to me. I just smiled at him but I felt so much anger right now.
They had sex last night... she was actually really serious about him.
I looked at him again after the anthem, he had a smirk on his face. I was gonna do everything to keep him behind me.

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The race was actually going well. It was tricky because of the rain but I didn't mind. I loved racing in the rain. "Watch out in corner 5, lots of drivers going off" GP came on the radio. 
"Yeah just leave me to it" I could handle this, I wasn't gonna give this win away especially when I knew Lando was driving a couple of seconds behind me.

"That's the checkered flag Max, great job. That's P1." I took my foot off the throttle.
"That was a simply lovely race mate."
I laughed over the radio. Checo finished behind me with Lando on P3. I was really proud of my team.

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Of course Rylee had to do the post race interviews.
I actually did every possible interview before hers but I knew I had to go to her as well.
She smiled at me and I just nodded. We both knew how to stay professional so that's what we did.
She thanked me and I turned around but she grabbed my arm. I looked at her confused.
"Can we talk later?" She asked and I shrugged my shoulders. "You know how to get in my drivers room I guess" she smiled and nodded. I quickly turned around, walking next to Hannah, my new PR manager. We actually became really good friends, she was good at her job and was really funny.

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I walked in my drivers room, falling down on the couch. I was actually exhausted from this race.
Not much later I heard three knocks on my door.
I knew who it was. I didn't need to reply because Rylee walked in a couple of seconds later.
She sat down next to me. "Congratulations on your win, you were amazing out there" she looked at me smiling, I just nodded.
"I actually wanted to thank you for last night, it was really sweet. I didn't want you to find out like that though" I could actually see the regret in her eyes.
"How long has this been going on?" I looked at her, zipping my racing suit down. "A couple of weeks ago" I nodded. So it was actually right after we broke up.

She took my hand and looked me straight into my eyes. "You'll find someone who loves you very much, you deserve to be happy" I looked at our hands and back up to her. I missed her, her lips, our inside jokes.
"But what if I never can forget about you?"