We flew back to England only 2 days later. Even though Lando had his own place, he wanted to stay at the apartment Athena and I rented together.
She was single but she didn't mind that he stayed with us. I guess she even kinda liked it. She was definitely still a bit starstruck every time she saw him.
I was eating breakfast with her when Lando walked in.
"Good morning baby" his voice roared a little as he pressed his lips against my cheek. "Good morning, how did you sleep?" I smiled.
"Fine baby, but we need to go" he didn't even sit down, he just grabbed an apple and looked at Athena. "Have a nice day mate" he laughed.
She chuckled. "Have a good one bro"
I love how they joked around with each other. I trusted her completely, not like Georgia.
As soon as Lando walked out she turned to me. "Just ask him to join you, I think he definitely will go with you"
I nodded, she was right. He knew Christian and they seemed to like each other, but he knew team principal Christian, not dad figure Christian.
"Thanks Athena, you're right" I said and waved a little, following Lando outside.
We drove to the MTC together, it still impressed me a lot.
"So baby, I know you have a lot to do, but Christian asked me to grab dinner together and I would love for you to come with me" I asked.
He didn't answer immediately. He just looked at the road. "You don't have to if you don't want to, or if you're busy" I quickly added.
He chuckled a little before turning his face to me and putting his hand on my thigh. "I would love to come with you, I'll push some things around so I'll be done on time"
I smiled so big. I put my hand on his and intertwined our fingers. He made me so incredibly happy.
"But I have to confess something" he said as he looked back at the road, his hand still intertwined with mine.
My heart dropped. That didn't sounded too good. He grabbed his phone, unlocked it and put it on my lap.
It was a conversation between him and Max Fewtrell.
Max F.
Dude
You weren't muted
Fuck really?
What did u hear?
Fortunately not much
I muted you for the chat
But they definitely heard something
I looked at Lando who was smiling. He didn't seem to care too much. They probably heard just us kissing or teasing each other because we had sex in his bedroom.
I wasn't that loud, they couldn't have heard that.
"I am sorry" I laughed, locking his phone again. "It's okay, it was fun either way" he winked, squeezing my thigh a little.
It definitely was fun.
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I had a lot of boring meetings and I was actually glad that I stayed awake during all of them.
Lando ditched his sim sessions to go with me to Christian. I didn't really like that, he needed those practices, but on the other hand, I was glad he agreed on going with me.
Christian liked him, I could see that in the way he talked to Lando. But Christian wouldn't be Christian if he didn't try to convince him to come to Red Bull.
"Still happy in orange?" Christian looked at Lando. "Very happy, especially since we have a new strategist" he answered as he looked at me with a smile on his face.
"Yeah I can imagine" Christian muttered. He still didn't like the fact that I signed for Mclaren. "What can I do to convince the both of you to come to Red Bull?"
Lando and I both looked at each other. Nothing could convince us, why would we?
Lando would be the second driver there and they would want me to concentrate mostly on Max.
"Pure cash" Lando answered, trying to be as serious as possible. It was clear that he was joking but I don't think Christian got that hint.
He just nodded and was pretty quiet during the rest of the dinner.
I was glad we had dinner with him, he seemed even more determined to have Lando join his team.
Jeddah wasn't going to be easy, we needed a decent strategy, especially now Lando didn't really do his sim sessions.
