A Rose in No-Man's Land by Tanner Margaret

Author:Tanner, Margaret [Tanner, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance,historical,wwI,vintage,spicy
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2013-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Only by pure chance had Mark heard about Amy being found. While he waited in Albert to deliver some battle plans for his commander, a signal came through from the English lines near Thiepval. An Australian army nurse had escaped from the Germans and saved a wounded soldier on her way to freedom. No woman but Amy could have accomplished a feat fraught with such danger.

The last few weeks had been absolute hell because he’d thought her lost to him. He’d thrown himself into the thick of battle, not caring whether he lived or died, because nothing mattered anymore.

He blamed Ella for what happened. God alone knew why he hadn’t put his hands around her neck and choked all the obscenity out of her. Now, to hear Amy had survived, it felt like being reborn.

I’ll make arrangements to have her sent to England, away from all this carnage.

He had pulled every string he could, used connections he hadn’t even thought about in years, to wangle a twenty-four-hour leave pass in Amiens, and he had illegally authorized a staff car to pick her up. There would be hell to pay later on, but he didn’t give a damn.

His gut clenched as he waited just off the Rue des Trois Cailloux in Amiens. Six o’clock. Where the hell was that staff car? He lit a cigarette and paced the foyer of the hotel where he had booked two rooms. Would she be all right? What if the Germans had violated her? The thought was a sword thrust through his heart.

“Mark?” The one husky word, sounding as if it had been dredged from deep within her soul, caused him to swing around.

“Amy!” She looked so little and frail standing there in a stained and muddied German uniform, her beautiful hair a tangled mass about her shoulders. “I thought I’d never see you again.” He took a step forward, then abruptly stopped.

Tears welled up in Amy’s eyes. She looked frightful, while Mark was freshly bathed and shaved, his uniform immaculate, boots shined to a glossy finish.

“What’s the matter, darling? What is it?” He opened his arms to her, but she did not run into them as she usually did.

“I’m so dirty,” she sobbed.

“Amy, you little fool.” He pulled her close. “After the hell you’ve been through? Oh, God, how like a woman to worry about her appearance.”

“You’re so clean,” she blubbered, burrowing her face into his chest.

“I had to tidy up before going to Headquarters.”

She raised her head. “If it hadn’t been for loving you so much and wanting to see you again, I wouldn’t have survived.”

“I heard how you brought that wounded man in. Dear God, most men couldn’t have performed such a feat.”

“It was awful.” Tears glistened on her lashes. “He lay in a deep shell hole. I piled all the dead bodies on top of each other so I could climb up and drag him out.”

“Shh, don’t talk about it yet.” It felt good to have her softness back in his arms again.

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