Unexpected love | Carlos Sainz Jr.

Chapter 6

                                   — Ella POV—

I looked up instantly hoping it wasn't Tom joining me in an awkward elevator moment. But instead of being met with a pair of blue eyes, I looked in the warmest, kindest brown eyes I had ever seen. I quickly looked away, however a feeling of familiarity came over me.

So I looked again to see who joined me, I realised the reason those eyes looked familiar was because they belonged to Carlos fucking Sainz Jr.

'Good evening, sorry I didn't mean to scare you' he said seeing my startled look. Still not fully realising who I was in the elevator with I replied softly, ' Good evening, no worries you didn't scare me at all. Just didn't expect to run into you here'.

' You do realise you are in the ferrari team hotel, so it is not uncommon that you would run into me here' Carlos cockily said.

' I didn't realise this was the ferrari team hotel, I have to be honest that I didn't know the person I visited, worked at Ferrari.' A disapproving look came over his face. I started to panic, did he know I was here for a onenightstand. I felt the shame washing over me. This was not how I thought the night would go. Drunken decisions are never  the good ones.

'Is it possible I saw you come in with Tom ?' He coldly asked. For some reason I just started talking, sharing way to much information.
'Yes. That's right we started dancing and it got a bit heated and he asked me to come to his place. I already had some drinks and it had already been some time ago since I had some physical contact. So I just went with it, until we got interrupted and that kind of killed the vibe so I decided to leave. He wanted to meet up again this weekend, but being somewhat sober I didn't really feel it anymore.'
I was shocked by the extreme oversharing I just did,
' sorry I didn't mean to tell you all this, please don't tell Tom that I shared this with you. Oh god this is not how I imagined meeting a driver of my favourite team would go.'

I looked at Carlos and he had a bright smile on his face. 'So I am your favourite' he smugly said. This remark made me a bit more confident, ' I said you are the driver of my favourite team, I never said you are my favourite' I hoped Carlos would see the humour in this.

He had the most unique and genuine laugh I had ever heard. ' Fair enough, being put on my place again, I like it' he said with tears in his eyes.
' I was wondering is your hotel far away from here? I don't want to come off as a stalker, but it is already really late. Just want to make sure you get there safely.'

I noticed a small blush forming, I was so mesmerised by this man standing a couple of centimetres away.
'I will have to check my phone, since I am not sure what the shortest route is from here to my hotel.'
I checked my phone, shit a walk in the dark late at night and it was going to take me 15 minutes.

Carlos must have seen my worried look because he said instantly, ' wait here, I will go get my jacket and then I will join you. Wouldn't want anything happening to you. Otherwise you won't be able to cheer for your favourite... Favourite team I mean off course.'

' Okay thank you, I really don't want to look silly, but I am really not a fan of walking alone in the dark late at night. Downside of being a woman these days. I will wait here for you.' I was so relieved by his offer.

'Perfect, be back in 2 minutes !' He was already heading back to the elevator.