After a series of follow up questions from the interviewers, Ivan finally went back to his hotel, feeling relieved and satisfied that he had already settled something that could have caused even more scandal and misunderstanding amongst many people, especially to Dino's parents. He knew that even though there are still narrow-minded people who would not believe him, he did not care about it at all. What mattered to him was that he told the truth, the absolute truth.
[I really hope that my statement would make the media stop asking me if I have a new girlfriend or something.] Ivan thought. [And I hope that Irina won't be hugging me like that anymore.]
At the back of his mind, Ivan was hoping that neither Dino's parents nor brother had seen the picture at all, or they all might scold him for it. Still, he was not nervous about them finding out about it since he knew that he had nothing to be guilty about.