Chapter 52 - Living as Lily

"Hah?"

"Fine! Since that's clear now!" He announced, shooting to his feet. "I have to make a quick call. When you're done, stop everything and get changed." He opened the door as he laughed as she is pouting.

Lily did not know if she should be angry or sad. The words 'to save you from your own stupidity' still persist throughout her mind.

Like an echo, his words flew through the vastness of her head. She was flustered. Never had someone called her stupid. She was ashamed of herself.

Anger rose in her. She was not used to being followed and felt uncomfortable with the idea that two people would now be clinging to her heels.

It felt like Alexandre had hired two spies / babysitters. Would he now know each of her steps? Would you tell him everything she did? Monitored each of her steps?

She had nothing to hide, but still felt controlled, felt treated like a child at the thought of two people accompanying her from now on.

She knew she was somehow guilty. Alexandre wanted her to be safe. She knew Pascal would not give up easily. That bastard! She was so angry. She wanted to roar and tear his head off. Not only had he betrayed her two years ago with her younger sister. No, that was not enough for him. He needed her money, too.

This greedy bastard!

Lily wanted so much to be one of those villainess noble girls of novels. A clever and insidious girl. One who always had some schemes in her pocket.

But Lily did not know how.

Should she perhaps even deal with the deep web and make some contacts or study under Alexandre? After all, he was No. 1 villain of 'My loyal hubby'.

Or maybe she should try Voodoo once and get one of those dolls she just had to pin up to get her revenge. Did this work anyway? And more importantly, was there even such a thing in this world? She had never really dealt with it, since she had never been so angry to think of revenge. But yesterday Pascal had clearly crossed the line.

Everything hurt. Every movement. Forget it! Forget it! She reminded herself. She did not want to die like that, not if she could prevent it. But how?

Lily turned sullen after she realized once again that she was a useless side character who had no special abilities.

After break fast she brought the dirty dishes back to the kitchen. The kitchen was empty, more reminiscent of one of those hotel kitchens all over stainless steel and high tech kitchen appliances.

To be honest Lily has lived here for almost a month, but never been in the kitchen until now. She lived a truly luxurious life. She never had to do something she did not want. She and Adrien were pampered rotten by Alexandre.

Lost in her thoughts she went to the fridge and opened the heavy door. It was not a normal fridge. It was one of those big fridge you could find in hotels or restaurants. But in a home? It was as big as a small room. Lots of different kind of fresh ingredients were lying in the shelves.

Their kitchen staff had a day off... Thoughtfully, she went through the wide kitchen. Should she cook something when Adrien came home? Lily was not completely untalented. Lily had lived alone for a long time. She knew how to take care of herself and since she was always a little gourmet, she knew how to make little masterpieces of taste out of not so good ingredients. And with this selection!

Lily closed the heavy door behind her and went up the stairs to her dressing room. As always, she was overwhelmed by the collection of clothes.

Usually a maid took over the selection for her. Because Lily was often too lazy to deal with trends and fashion. Agnes, her maid in charge, knew more about her wardrobe than Lily. The girl did not mind being dressed like a doll. After all, she had a lot of experience with it.

The young maid had fun in her job and knew what she was doing and Lily did not really know much about it. When she was still living in her grandparents' house, her grandmother had always dressed her up as if she was a doll. Valerie did not argue. Like a lady of steel, she enforced her will. Which is why Lily has the patience of a Buddha when her grandmother once again felt this impulse to dress her up or to drag her to a shopping tour. The girl knew this kind of impulse could drag on for hours. Why patience was the best weapon against these torments. Actually, Lily wanted nothing more than to walk around in comfortable clothes.

But the women's clothes of this world were by no means comfortable. They were beautiful!

The designers of this world wasn't even able to create some jogging pants, hoodies and loose clothes. Women wore only clothes that were uncomfortable most of the time. And under these clothes a corset was hidden with which one could hardly breathe.

Women like her grandmother refused to wear shape wear, though these were the more comfortable variant of the stiff corsets.

But for these women, the wisdom was - who wants to be beautiful, must suffer!

Lily fished a light cotton dress out of her wardrobe. An a-line in a lavender color with long sleeves and a cute bow on the collar.

The fabric softened around her delicate curves, but she had one problem when putting it on ...