Chapter 3 - Escape plan

Lily felt ill.

She knew she would have to hide with Adrien.

Somehow disappear, until her twenty-first birthday.

What should she do? She herself was fleeing from her family and a marriage that would cost her dear life.

And then suddenly, out of the blue, an immense fury boiled up inside of her.

Oh, how she hated this book she was stuck in now.

She hated the stupid author who plays with her life as if it were worthless.

This damned author who keeps throwing rocks in her way, stones that would drive Lily to her grave if she was not careful enough.

She still wondered what she had done wrong in her past life to be reborn as Lillian de Clermont.

A side character whose life could not be more tragic.

In the book, Lillian was the rich princess of the de Clermont family. She led the perfect life of a rich heiress. If it was not for her jealous half-sister, who sought her life. Nadine and Lillian's husband Pascal forged a murderous plan and poisoned the poor Lillian. To seize Lillian's legacy after her death. Everything would have gone well had it not been for Elodie, the main character of 'My loyal hubby' and best friend of Lillian, who revealed the schemings of the killer duo. Lily's fate was no more than a step in Elodie's rise to the beautiful and rich world of the nobles in the book.

Lily was upset. She wanted to pray, but she did not know how or to whom. She was a single nerve bundle. The fear was like a thick lump in her throat. She did not know where to go. She did not know what to do.

She pressed her fingers to her throbbing temples and tried to gather all her sanity.

But where should she start?

Dame it!

She knew the time was running through her fingers, but where should she run? She could no longer hide in her old hiding place. It was not the right environment for the toddler. Besides, it was not safe within the borders of Bourgogne.

She would probably have to follow the advice of Monsieur Fabre. She had to leave the country. Lily swallowed her fear and petted Adrien's head, who laid calm in her arms.

"Adrien, we're going on train now. Is that okay? " Her voice trembled almost imperceptibly.

"You will stay with me?"

"But of course I'll stay with you." Lily tries to smile. It was a hopeless attempt that just had to go wrong.

She wished that she could keep the promise.

How much she wanted to keep it.

But that fear in her grew with each passing second. Meanwhile, various scenarios floated through her mind. How they could grab them. How they could snatch Adrien from her. And how she could just watch.

Her fear got bigger and bigger. And at the same time she wondered how she could fix everything again. Unless it was hopeless. Because then, she could do nothing. Because then she could only watch silently as everything around her broke down.

"Then train is okay.", Adrien broke through her thoughts, which slipped more and more into the negative. She could not deny it, she was a little scaredy cat who hid rather than facing his problems. For her, running away was always the first solution.

Adrien happily looked at her with his big round dear-like eyes, before burying his head in her hair again.

"Then let's start our journey." She turned to the road and beckoned one of those black cabs before slipping inside the cab.

"What's your destination?" Asked an elderly gentleman in his fifties.

"To the station, please."