LEGACY/// FORMULA ONE (3)

THIRTY NINE

THIRTY NINE

DANIEL RICCIARDO TO JOIN RENAULT FOR THE 2019 SEASON

"Damn Daniel."

Larissa laughed as she was reading the news article about the departure of Daniel Ricciardo from Red Bull.

"Don't act so surprised Lara, you've known for months that I was leaving." Daniel Ricciardo laughed as he was laying next to his best friend on her yacht, since she had invited him to join her for a day on her boat.

"Well yeah, but that was mainly because they approached me."

"Yeah, and that was before I had decided that I actually wanted to leave." Daniel held the girl in his arms as she rested her head on his chest.

"Another reason why we both need to kick their asses next season." Larissa smiled as she was drawing small hearts on the bare chest of the Ricciardo man with her fingers.

"Does anybody else know that you're meant to be going to Mercedes?" He questioned his best friend as he was drawing circles on her back.

"Just Anthoine. Zahra would scream it to everybody so I haven't told her yet, or Pierre." Larissa admitted shyly.

"Are you still not speaking to Lewis?"

"Are you still not speaking to Max?"

The pair questioned each other, squinting their eyes at each other challengingly.

"He took advantage of my best friend, Lara. That is you. As much as I love him, he was in the wrong and until he learns his lesson, I'm not speaking to him because you mean too much to me." Daniel spoke to the Cohen girl, still mad at his team mate for taking advantage and sleeping with a very drunk Larissa.

"Are you not still mad at him, anyway?"

Larissa slowly nodded her head up and down. "Why do you think I've been staying with uncle Sebby, and occasionally uncle Micky? I know that I initiated it, but I couldn't even think straight, or see straight."

"I know. I'm so sorry that I couldn't stop it, I feel like it was my fault." Daniel admitted with a heavy heart.

"It's not. You can't blame yourself, because it is not your fault."

Daniel shook his head slightly, allowing one of his curls to fall in front of his eyes. "I have let your father down, Lara. I'm supposed to protect you. I have let Jules down."

"My dad would be saying that you could not have known, and that you saved me in Monaco when I fainted. As for Jules, well if he was here, he would be kicking your ass because you're feeling sorry for yourself and blaming yourself for something which was not your fault."

"How do you know?"

"Because it's the truth. Don't believe me? I will crash in to you on the first race next season, and make sure that your first Renault season starts horrifically." Larissa wiggled her eyebrows at the Australian, seeing him smiling softly at her.

"I love you, Lara."

"I love you too, Danny boy."

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"Papouille, what is this I hear about you hating and attacking Lewis?"

Anthoine Hubert questioned as he walked in to the apartment in Monaco that she was staying in, when she wasn't in Switzerland, which belonged to none other than his friend, Charles Leclerc.

"He accused me of deliberately taking him out, just because he's retiring."

"And did you?"

"No! There was an animal on the track! You could clearly see it on camera so I don't know why everyone keeps accusing me of deliberately taking him out!"