Sequel of "Come Back...Be Here - Charles Leclerc"
Four years later, Mary and Charles inevitably cross paths again.
Will they rekindle their love? Or are the scars too deep?
Today was a very, very, very important day. Little James Russell was being christened today. It was a sunny, glorious day in Monaco and I couldn't be more excited. Carmen and George had asked me alongside his brother, Toto Wolff and a cousin of Carmen to be a godmother. Lando had been offended that he wasn't chosen but he admitted that it was probably due to him still being a child.
So I made my way to the Sainte Dévote chapel where the christening was taken place. A very glowing and happy Carmen and George stood outside and greeted the guests. "You're here!!" she exclaimed when I walked up to greet her. "Of course! Where else would I be?" I laughed and hugged her before looking at little James who was sleeping peacefully in her arms. "You want to hold him for the ceremony?" she asked me. "Oh my gosh, yes, wow, thanks, I'd love to" I quickly said and took the baby from his mother's arms.
With me holding James now, I hadn't calculated that all the attention was on me as everyone arriving wanted to have a look at the baby, also my ex-boyfriend, who arrived just on time. "Hello Mary, you look stunning" he said as he greeted me with two kisses on my cheeks. "Thank you. I've been meaning to thank you for your Easter gift but there has just been a lot on my plate lately- which I will tell you all about later at the reception as I have to go now" I said after I saw Toto waving his arms energetically signalling me to get up to the stairs as the ceremony was starting.
While I was walking up to the other godparents, I turned around again to have a look at Charles, who stood there with a soft smile. "Stop flirting with your ex-boyfriend. I'd rather you have a date with the priest than with him" Toto said and rolled his eyes. "You angry he didn't switch to Mercedes?" I chuckled. "His contract expires next year, maybe if you put in a good word since you are on such good terms..." he said. "He'll never switch now. He's Christian's new baby boy and as long as they're winning both sides won't want to let each other go" I replied and then concentrated on the priest who spoke the opening prayer.
The ceremony was beautiful, I cried at least three times and at the end, I made sure that the photographer took hundreds of pictures of me with the baby as I was feeling pretty and I wanted to put up a picture of today in my living room.
At the reception, I had given James back to Carmen as it was time to feed him and since I was feeling hungry too, I went to the buffet. When I was looking for a table to join, I saw that there was still space at one with Lando, Alex, Lily... and Charles, which was fine as I wanted to talk to him anyways. "The fairy godmother is here" Lando announced me as I was just joining them. "Congrats Alex and Lily! It was about time..." I said and hugged the two before admiring the huge rock on her finger. "Yeah, do you want to be a bridesmaid?" she asked excitedly. This took me by surprise and my facial expression must have been a bit too honest. I probably looked like that annoyed Carlos Sainz meme. Lando erupted in laughter. "Erm- yeah, sure! Sorry for the delayed reaction but... it's my third wedding this year and I have a role in all of them" I chuckled, trying to still sound polite. "Ah yes, your brother is getting married right?" Alex asked and put the mood back at ease. "Yep. And Jo- a friend of mine from England" I replied and smiled, thanking the stars for catching myself before breaking the news about Alice and Joris' secret engagement to everyone.
In hopes of distracting from that topic, I said: "Anyways Charles, I was about to tell you before, but... well, I've filed a lawsuit against F1 and the FIA..." "You what?" he asked surprisedly. I nodded and everyone was all ears: "The risk of doing that hot lap with Bobby last year was just too high." "Yeah, but, why now? I mean, it cannot be about the money, you surely have enough" Lando asked. "Monaco is coming up and I don't want anything like this to happen again. And of course it's not about the money. I asked for one symbolic dollar as damages, I just want it to be prohibited at tracks like Monaco which are apparently too dangerous for this kind of stuff. There has to be drawn a line where the entertainment becomes too much of a danger. I mean, they red flag a race as soon as it rains but let young drivers take laymen on a hot lap on one of the most dangerous street circuits?!" I said and everyone nodded, agreeing with me. "You'll definitely win as I know how ice cold of a lawyer you are" Charles said and sent me a smile. Of course I saw Lando and Lily rolling his eyes and Alex faking to have to vomit, but I appreciated the compliment. Of course he knew how good I was - he had been with me throughout all of my training and always pushed me to do better, even if he had no clue about what I was actually doing most of the time.
After a few hours, most of the guests started going home and after saying goodbye to George, Carmen, their families and especially baby James, I also took on the short walk home. Lando accompanied me as he probably didn't want to leave Charles the chance to do so and when we almost had arrived he said: "You still have feelings for him." "Of course I do. He is the love of my life. Just because I decided to marry another guy, whom I loved endlessly, doesn't mean that I forgot about him. Charles was the one with whom I had a passionate, adventurous, crazy love story. Bobby was my reasonable, perfect and soft choice - he knew that and I definitely was the reasonable choice for him too. We were both almost thirty, not twenty." I explained and Lando nodded. "So there really is such a thing as great love..." he said, deep in though. "Yes, there is. And you will find yours too if you stopped sleeping around and manned up" I said and shot him a wink.
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📍 Église Sainte-Dévote mary.wright98 Fairy godmother of baby J 🧚🏼♀️
carmenmmundt ❤️❤️❤️❤️ georgerussell63 The best choice 👌🏼 oli_wright_one_and_only Did you fall into a flower field? You have some still stuck on your head... charles_leclerc very pretty :) tory_kdy OMG GORGEOUS
