Forbidden

44. White Walls

Max stood outside the hotel doors, covered in blood, unable to move. 

"Mr. Verstappen, should I call Mr.Perez's room again?" asked the receptionist shyly. 

Max snapped out of it. He turned to the receptionist behind him, her face was still deeply worried. 

"Yes, tell her Checo and Olivia are on their way to the hospital and get them a driver to get them there" said Max processing everything that was happening. He looked down and saw Olivia's blood still fresh on his shirt and hands. 

"Are you going with them sir?" asked the receptionist "Or should I call you a different driver? Would you like to change first?". The voice of the receptionist still trembled. Max thought about going up to his room, cleaning up the blood from his arms and changing his shirt. That's when he realized one more thing he had to do before he left for the hospital. 

"Wait 10 minutes and then get me a different car" he said as he started moving towards the elevator, his voice had stopped trembling, he sounded much more menacing and his fists started to tense up. The receptionist ran to the desk to call Carola and got them a car. The elevator arrived and Max hoped in. 

It was Ashley. There was no doubt on his mind it was Ashley. She knew Olivia would be on the roof, that's why she made sure Max wasn't. His hands were curled up into fists and his face, which was still red, started to tense up.

He arrived to his floor and walked decidedly to his suite, he opened the door with a slam. 

"Finally, that took you long, I am starving" he heard Ashley say from the bedroom. He walked there without saying a word. He came in through the bedroom door. Ashley was still in her pijamas, packing her things on her suitcase. The moment she saw him her mouth opened in shock at the sight of Max covered in blood, his face red and puffy, jaw tense, fists curled up. 

The moment Max saw her his anger rose even more. "What did you do?" he said with his voice still shaking from the anger, the shock, the sorrow. 

Ashley's mouth was still open in shock "Max, what happened?!" she said loudly. 

Max took more steps towards her, menacingly, forcing her to walk backwards until she was against the wall " Don't fucking lie to me Ashley, WHAT DID YOU DO?" he yelled at her right on her face. 

Ashley's eyes were wide as Max backed her up against the wall. "What is going on Max?! Are you hurt?" she asked scanning his body, like she was searching for the source of the blood.

Max grabbed both of her shoulders tightly "Don't play with me Ashley!" he yelled "WHAT DID YOU DO TO OLIVIA?".

Ashley raised her hands as a demonstration of surrender "Max I don't know what you are talking about! I don't understand, what is going on!?" she yelled. She seemed scared. Max didn't understand, it had to be her, it had to.  "What happened to Liv?! I don't understand!" she yelled. Max started getting confused, why was she so surprised by this? Was she just such a good liar or was she telling him the truth? He realized his grip on her shoulders was really tight and he let go of her arms.

He turned around and started pacing, trying to breath. 

 "I know you did it Ashley, don't lie to me!" said Max pacing in his room "Olivia just got carried out on a fucking ambulance!"

"What? Why?! What happened to her?" asked Ashley in a high pitch voice, her eyes wide. 

"STOP FUCKING LYING" Max yelled at her even louder as he took steps towards her again. She backed up against the wall once more.

The doorbell to the suite rang. "Hey everything okay? I heard someone screaming" called Charles from the other side of the door. 

"Max I'm not lying, what happened to Liv?" asked Ashley quietly, with a worried look on her face. Max took one last look at Ashley, looking furious and at the same time confused, then started walking towards the door in a hurry.