"I… won't be answering any questions for now."
"Rhys! Please, right now, some of your fans are hesitating to support you. What can you say about that!?"
"Is what we saw yesterday the real you, Mr. Wilder? Should we expect more violence!?"
Rhys was covering his eyes from all the flashes of light that were drowning him. And although he had been telling the reporters that he did not want to answer any questions for now, he had actually only taken probably less than a dozen steps from the door of the police station.
And of course, Maria noticed exactly that. Rhys's hesitation and uncertainty… they were all an act. Maria already pushed some of the reporters to fully make way for him to walk through, but Rhys did not even take it and even took a step back as he pretended to be disturbed by the flashes of light.
And so, Maria stopped any efforts to escort Rhys out of this chaos and just stood behind him.
