No Love Greater

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Mercedes had won the last two races in Australia and Bahrain and were set to move to Imola for the Italian Grand Prix starting mid April. Our cargo had arrived earlier to the start of the race schedule and logistic professionals had begun to assemble the motor home due for completion in 48 hours.

The light showers in Imola welcomed us when we landed a day to free practice which suggested the possibility of precipitation on both qualifiers and race day. This meant our strategy for the race would change since we had earlier decided to go with a two pit stop plan for a dry circuit.

We got settled before the usual dinner in the evenings and had some more team bonding with each other. Dinner was fun as one of the engineers was talking about how Lewis and Valtteri scored P1 and P2 respectively in the last race. He seriously believed our outing in Italy would be a piece of cake. Everyone dispersed and went to our respective rooms after dinner for our well-deserved night rest.

Lewis and I decided to stay together through the night. We talked about our expectations for the day and if our strategies would secure a win for us. Tonight was a chill night and we cuddled through it.

I woke up early after feeling the urge to pee and checked my phone for the time. It was 5:10am. I hurriedly used the rest room while he was fast asleep. This was a perfect time to sneak out of his room and back to my room without the fear of being seen leaving here. I gave him a kiss on his cheeks and left.

LEWIS POV

I woke up to knocks on my room door and stretched to tap Selena. She had gone to her room I think which gave me some form of relief because we didn't want anyone to find out about us.

The time on the phone was 6am and I shook my head.

"Who is coming to see me at this time", I said to myself.

The person knocked again.

"Angela and Toto? okay", I said.

"What brings you guys here at 6am? we are not due to leave till 9", I asked.

"When last did you check your phone?", Toto asked.

"At last night's dinner, then a moment ago when I tried to get up from the bed", I replied.

"Well your ex-girlfriend Caroline Martinez posted a message on her twitter handle indicating the both of you talk from time to time and are currently trying to patch things up, you know that relationship ended badly and she tried to paint you black to everyone she met", Toto said.

I nodded.

"Don't you have anything to say Lewis", Angela asked

"We are not trying to pry in your private life but just want you to be careful with her", she added.

I then spoke.

"Caroline had been the one calling me for the past week, I didn't want to sound rude to her so I listened, she wants us to get back and apologized for everything she did and said, I didn't want it to seem like I was holding a grudge against her considering she's a woman, I told her we could just be friends", I said.

"She would be coming to watch the race too", I added.

"Wow, just try to be as plain as possible when she comes around Lewis, it's for the best", Toto said.

'And I will be there to shield you off if you need me", Angela added.

"Naaa, it won't come to that, I can handle her, worry not", I said.

With that Toto and Angela said good bye and left.

I went back to my bed to think about what we just discussed and knew I needed to tell Selena everything. I didn't want her to be caught unawares.