Mending a Broken Angel - Slow Updates

**A BEST FRIENDS ROMANCE** Steamy chapters will be seperate & private! Slow Updates!!

Could you forgive a friend who betrayed you... shattered your heart like glass from a high note?

Chilli Winters once had a best friend named Maximus Sinclair. He rescued her from the mud, from the bullies who made fun of her name. He shared his favourite sweets, dried her tears, chased away her fears with his guitar when the thunder raged.

Until he became Max Sin... the Rockstar. He became her thunder, the cause of her tears... smashed her heart to smithereens.

She changed schools, her appearance, friends... her entire life to escape the daily misery. And now he's back. This time, she believes she'll be okay; he won't be able to hurt her because she's ready to keep her heart to herself this time.

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The phone's owner is grinning like a Cheshire cat, already pushing buttons frantically as he prepares to go all social media on us, but the man holding me has a smile that outstrips the photographer's by a mile. By a million miles. By a gazillion million miles...

I've seen that self-satisfied, triumphant smirk before, in the library when he tricked me into reading out a section of his biology homework. A very embarrassing description of two people engaging in... procreation.

I have a sinking feeling no amount of therapy can undo the power of a photograph, the one thing that can tell a thousand words, even if those words are a total fabrication, a grossly misconstrued explanation of the situation.

No. I know what this will look like. Me, in his arms. He, kissing up my neck. This is no carefully constructed music clip where we're playing parts; simply acting out a scene. No one will believe we're not romantically involved, even if we protested and explained the situation.

This will be concrete evidence in everyone's eyes. Trial and decision by social media. I can hear the ship names now.

And Max walked- no, sailed- us right in to it!