LEGACY/// FORMULA ONE (3)

SIX

SIX

"Papa, can Mick come and play with me? I want to show him my new dolls house!"

"Of course he can, but don't forget about Gina. You can't leave one sibling out, anjo." Luiz Cohen smiled fondly at his daughter.

"I could never forget about Ginny, papa! She always likes my dresses when we play together!" The seven year old beamed, eloping her father in to a tight hug, her small hands wrapped around his neck as she kissed his cheeks.

"Boa menina." Luiz patted his daughters soft dark hair as he kissed his daughter who he loved with his entire heart.

Nobody else could ever come close to how much he loved her.

Not even his wife.

Luiz knew that it would have been confusing for his young daughter, since her mama and papa were still married but separated, ever since he had caught his wife cheating on him with their neighbor, though their child wasn't to know about that, ever, or that it was the reason that her mother never went to her birthday party, because she was too busy sleeping with somebody who wasn't her husband.

But the pair had agreed to act like a couple around their little girl and for the cameras, just until she was old enough, before getting a divorce to save her from the heart ache that she would have to go through.

"Daddy..." Larissa's small voice sounded, earning her father undivided attention. "When can I see uncle Sebby, Nando and Kimi again? Or uncle Michael?"

"You can see Michael when he will drop Mick and Gina here for play time, as for Sebby, Nando and Kimi, you can see them at race week. How does that sound, anjo?" Luiz soothed, his voice soft and quiet to avoid scaring or spooking his beloved daughter.

"Yay! Will I be able to show them my new bike with the ribbons on it?" Larissa's eyes lit up at the knowledge that she would be able to see her uncles soon.

"Of course, I'm sure Kimi will love to push you as you cycle up and down the paddock again."

She had to get a new bicycle, since her old one, the one with unicorns on, had been stepped on a few weeks ago at a race, by Jos Verstappen, with the man not even bothered by the small girl stood next to it that was crying her eyes out.

Jos' son, however, who was a similar age to Larissa, had yelled at his father to buy her a new bike. Obviously, his dad had refused, so the boy had given her, his bike until she was able to get a new one.

She didn't know his name, all she had known was that she had kissed his cheek as a thank you and promised to return the bike when she got a new one, which was true as her father had informed her that he had returned the bike to the boy.

"Is everything alright, anjo?" Luiz Cohen frowned as he noticed that his daughter had zoned out, watching as she shook her head to presumably clear her head of whatever major thoughts were in the seven year old head and looked at her father with bright eyes.

"When Mick and Gina come, can we get pizza? And ice cream?"

"Of course we can Chuchuzinho, of course we can."

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"Hey, Lara, you good?"

Daniel Ricciardo shook the girl slightly, as he had been talking to her minutes before she seemingly zoned out.

She immediately came to, blinking away a few stray tears as she shook her head to rid herself of the memory.

It hurt her heart.