Don't Look Back: SOE Circuit Fortunae Book 1 by Thomas Wood

Author:Thomas Wood [Wood, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781916413856
Publisher: BoleynBennett Publishing
Published: 2020-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

16

“How are we going to find her?” Mike asked tentatively, as he strained under the effort he was exerting.

“I don’t know yet. I’m sure she’ll find her way back to us, one way or another. She seems like that sort.”

He thought for a moment, as he carried on working away like a persistent rodent, trying to make his way into the pantry for a midnight feast.

“I’m not quite as certain as you on that front, old fruit.”

“Why not?”

“She seemed pretty aloof to me. Secretive. And now that she tried to get rid of us, I’m convinced that she’ll be lying low somewhere. Out of our way. She’ll know that we want to have a stern word with her.”

“We still don’t know that it was her who told the Germans.”

Frequently, I found myself getting defensive of Suzanne, despite the fact that I did not trust her in the slightest. In fact, I would have wagered that I trusted her less than Mike did. But there was something about the whole situation, and Mike’s frame of mind, that convinced me that I would have to persuade the both of us that she wasn’t as bad as we had been making out.

“And you have no evidence to prove otherwise.”

I looked at him triumphantly, as if I had backed the prosecution barrister into a corner that no one could escape from.

“But you, similarly, have no evidence to redeem her.”

The prosecution counsel was back on top.

I rubbed away at my forearm, the itching that I had experienced before reaching a crescendo in the last few days, as I inevitably ran out of the ointment that I required to soothe it.

“It’s bad?” Mike asked, nodding at my scratching. “I’ve noticed you doing it a lot more recently.”

“Yeah,” I replied. “It’s getting worse. I need to find some sort of ointment that will help sort it out soon. Otherwise I’m scared I’ll wake all the Germans in France up with my scratching.”

He chuckled, softly.

“Want to talk about it all yet?”

“I can take a turn carrying that, if you want.”

He stayed silent, frustrated at my lack of a real acknowledgement of his question. But through my own refusal to answer, he had received the most complete answer that he could have expected from me.

As we continued to walk through the wooded area, I knew that he was thinking of exactly the same thing. He had been with me the entire time that the event had unfolded.

I pondered how he had seen things, if he had different memories of that night compared to me, as it had not affected him in the same way that it had done in my life.

He must have been saddened by what he had seen, I don’t think anyone could have been hardened to the goings-on back then, but he had somehow managed to carry on.

Just days after it had all happened, he was back with 249 Squadron, flying sorties over the skies of Kent, as the Germans refused to back down on their plan to eradicate us all.

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