Chapter 4 - Great catch (1/2)

For exactly forty-eight hours, the hunt was opened. The tabloids had only one question: where was Adrien? The press was overturning with speculation and theories. But no one knew where the little guy was.

While Adrien slept, she read all the news about the deaths of Fabien and Elodie de Bourbon. And, of course, the excited search for the heir of the Bourbon Empire.

She begged, pleaded and negotiated with the god she knew. Promise him she would never doubt him again, if only the world would forget Adrien.

But the world would never forget Adrien. Not as long as he had that bunch of money and power.

”Lily I'm hungry.”

Her heart stopped spinning. She whirled around.

She shoved the phone under the covers quickly, before she moved beside him. Somehow she manages to bring out a smile.

”I'm hungry too. What should we eat? ”

Thoughtfully Adrien put his head on his shoulder and looked at Lily with a cute smile on his lips. ”Spaghetti?” He whispered questioningly.

”Spaghetti, then!” The girl chuckled.

Lily first combed his hazel hair, then helped him out of his pajamas before helping him into his new street clothes.

She looked out the window. It rained. A gray film had spread across the sky, as if this world was mourning the loss of MC and ML with her.

Lily decided she would eat at the hotel restaurant and smoothed her gray summer dress before reaching for Adrien's chubby hand.

Quickly she threw her bag around her shoulder and left the room with Adrien.

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”Could we have a table for two, please?” She asked the waiter.

But before she could take another step further with Adrien into the restaurant, a second of the waiters rushed up. His black and white uniform looked nobler than his colleague's. He looked like one of those emperor penguins she had seen as a kid in the zoo. He softly whispers something in his colleague's ear, which Lily naturally could not hear.

A strange feeling spread in her. She suddenly had a desire to grab Adrien, turn around and run as fast as she could.

With a fluid movement, the waiter turned back to her. ”Miss, please follow me.”

Lily tried to suppress her paranoia. After all, it was against all reason that someone had already found her, that someone was waiting there.

The waiter took them to a second floor with some private rooms.

Every alarm bell in Lily shrilled.

Terrified, she took a step back.

Even Adrien closed his arms around her leg. Cramp his little hands in the fabric of her dress.