A Jewel In Time; A Sultry Sisters Anthology by Barbara Devlin & Jeanne Adams & Caitlenn T. Ainnsley

Author:Barbara Devlin & Jeanne Adams & Caitlenn T. Ainnsley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Europe, Romance, Britian, Anthology, Historical Romance, Regency Romance, WWII, Modern Hisotry Romance, Anthologies, Military, America, Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9780985854874
Publisher: Barbara C. Noyes
Published: 2014-11-10T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter VII

Frau Shemper was packing her bag. Her trunk from Calais, which the efficient housekeeper had taken away when she arrived, was open on the floor and more than half filled with clothes.

“I will be sorry to see you go, Fräulein,” Shemper said, smiling as she carefully folded a woolen jacket. “But it is a great honor you are receiving, ja?”

“Of course,” Grace managed to keep her tone light, her posture erect.

What she wanted to do was shove the old woman out the window, and run for it. Her grief for Dix weighed her down, though. She wasn’t sure she’d have the strength to push.

Duty and honor kept her playing the game. She’d found no opening to secure the journal, or to get away, but by God, tonight she would make one. Dix had said there were tunnels, and servant’s stairs. Too bad he’d only told her about them, rather than showing them to her.

No matter what, she must leave the house and head for the border before daybreak. He had come and gone through the bathroom. Perhaps she could find her way that way.

She endured Frau Shemper’s chatter, and took her evening meal in her room.

“It is an early start,” Frau Shemper said, stopping to berate young Wilhelm for nearly tipping over the tea tray he’d brought up and set on the table between the fire and the settee. It was much smaller than the one Dix had lifted easily the first day she’d seen him.

That made her heart hurt more.

“I will wake you with plenty of time to dress and have something to eat, ja?”

“Yes, thank you, Frau Shemper.”

“Zer gut. I will return for the tray and to warm your bed.”

“Danke.”

The moment Frau Shemper left the room, Grace sprang into action. She wouldn’t be able to take much, but she could make a pack of her clothes. She would wear the boots and kit she’d originally donned when she was to go with Dix.

A sob caught in her throat. He’d been willing to come get her out, free her, and had sacrificed his life to bring her a chance of safety. She couldn’t stay here, meek and passive in the face of that sacrifice.

No time for tears,” she admonished herself. Frau Shemper would be back soon so she had to hurry. With precision, she laid out the things she would take then repacked the trunk and bag so the items she needed were on top.

The books she’d been given from the library mocked her from where they lay on the floor. She shuddered to think of the horrible, horrible prose in both books, which glorified genocide.

“Cleansing” they called it.

“Murder,” she muttered. Perhaps she, like Goebbels and his cronies, should indulge in a little book burning.

“Oh, no,” she said, smiling as an idea occurred to her. “Not to burn,” she added, picking both books up and stacking them together. “Burning’s too good for you.”

She ate heartily, worrying over the details of her idea. When Frau Shemper returned with a guard named Carl, she asked the woman if she’d stay for a moment.

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