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Michael has been with Mika for 10 years, and nothing about their relationship was tiring.
Since the birth of their son Ronan in 1993, they had 2 more children. Gina was born in 1998, conceived on the night her father won his very first race, and Mick in 1999, conceived as a result of his father winning his very first championship at the very last race the year prior.
He was a loyal wife to Mika, even though the paddock seemed to think differently about that.
In the eyes of many, Omegas were still unfaithful breeding machines with sex drives that a single Alpha, no matter how strong, could satisfy.
The German rolled his eyes at those ancient views of people like him. He could choose whether he was a slut or not, whether he wanted to sleep with other people or not, but society still saw it as an uncontrollable biological issue that had to be beaten out of them.
He’d chosen to be faithful to his husband of 7 years, he’d chosen to be his husband’s slut, and he’d chosen to only ever bear his husband’s children.
It was now 2003, Mika was now a 5-time World Championship. He’d won 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and was going for his 6th championship this very season.
Since Michael had been in the paddock, he’d seen quite a few scandals.
The first one had happened in 1997 when the title battle was between Alesi and Villeneuve.
Alesi had been overconfident, and Ferrari had fed that overconfidence by throwing women (both Beta and Omega) at him to stroke his ego, which had lead to his girlfriend at that moment to cheat even more than what she was already doing prior to the title fight.
And she found her solace with Villeneuve.
That love triangle… it was the talk of the proverbial town.
There had been quite a fight over it between the two Alphas, and Alesi had used dirty tricks to win the championship that year trying to win back the woman he lost. In the end, the Frenchman had been disqualified from the championship that year and silently disgraced.
That scandal had caused his girlfriend to leave for good, and it would take years for him to find a new one.
There had been some other things, but not extremely major that the tabloid papers blew up over it. Yes, they were mentioned in one of them at the very least, but it was nothing too bad.
That was until Corinna decided it was a good idea to publicly kiss the Spanish lover boy Fernando Alonso very soon after her divorce from Heinz-Herald.
Michael knew his friend was a little bit known to be a gold digger, but it wasn’t known she liked to date men a decade younger than herself.
To her, Frentzen had been a convenience for a while and their daughter Sarah had only made their fellow German stay a little bit longer with her until a new prey came onto her path. Her path had led her to Alonso, only 23 years old when the picture was taken.
That ‘scandal’ blew up the papers again.
And as Corinna’s best friend and wife of a multiple-time World Champion, Michael was also under fire.
Yes, they came from similar backgrounds, they both came from the top layer of the German lower-tier middle-class as the children of labourers and housewives. Yes, they’d both dated men from similar circuits throughout their life. Yes, they both still liked to dress sexy while being considered middle-aged.
But no, they were not the same.
Corinna’s parents believed in sexual liberation, Michael’s parents didn’t.
Corinna married rich to earn the estate she owned now, Michael brought in a second income that could be spent on his 4 children that wanted to do nice things.
Michael already had a child in his teenage years, Corinna didn’t.
Yet both of them were considered gold diggers and whores.