NOVA: The Time Bender Series Book 1 by Isabelle Champion

Author:Isabelle Champion [Champion, Isabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-03T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Time: 8th August 1661

Location: England, Montgomery Estate

Saying goodbye was surprisingly harder than I would have thought. This entire time I’d been trying to find a way out of this life - not caring to soak in the appearances of my friends and families faces.

Once upon a time (a really long time ago) I was Marion, my future hadn’t been written yet and my timeline was very short. I had no idea when I died I wouldn’t go to heaven like everybody had raised me to think. Instead, I would be reborn in the same flesh and skin with only experiences to shape my personality within that life.

The entire team of staff was lined up down the stairs and a sleek, grey carriage with gold trimmings waited patiently. Horses holding the Counts’ own servants and soldiers shuffled from foot to foot restlessly.

One by one I thanked each servant for raising me up until now. I was glad I’d grown to know their names otherwise I would have felt incredibly guilty by the tears some of them wiped away.

Harold clapped my hands and kissed either side of my cheek solemnly. “Thank you for being my guard dog. Great job,” I whispered sarcastically under my breath, he chuckled.

“Everyone needs a little freedom,” he replied.

Donald was a little more hesitant than Harold but still ended up wrapping his arms around me and squishing me into his belly. “I apologise for running away from you.” I smiled, gaining a laugh from both my father's men.

Cecilia and Abigail stood at the end of the line, posted either side of my father and aunt. First, Cecilia hugged me tightly and I was conscious that she’d placed something in the pocket of my red skirt but I didn’t risk showing any sign.

Abigail was by far the hardest to say goodbye to. She clung onto my shoulders shaking silently as she fought back tears. “Marion you better not forget us here. And don’t let all that money get to your head. Alright, Countess?”

I rolled my eyes and muttered under my breath. “Please don’t ever call me that again.”

“You will always be a Montgomery,” my Aunt interjected from the side, speaking under her breath but my Father caught it. If he’d heard he didn’t show any sign of it though, just the rapid blinking of his eyes as he embraced me.

“Be careful.”

“I know Father.”

“I suspect you shall visit, and write to us?”

“Of course,” I replied, kissing his cheek and backing away. My Aunt quickly took me into her arms and breathed me in.

“You were the daughter I never had,” she whispered, her voice cracking slightly as she tilted the black hat back into place and poofed up the red feather. “Beautiful,” she murmured, kissing my cheek one last time.

I took a last look at the estate’s grey walls and somehow the early morning sun made it look a lot less grim of a place to be trapped in.

And here I was trading one prison for another. Oh the irony.

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