Hearts of Resistance by Soraya M. Lane

Author:Soraya M. Lane [Lane, Soraya M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477805107
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2018-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

ROSE

Her back hurt, her feet were aching and Rose wanted nothing more than to curl into a ball and sleep. It had already been a long night, creeping towards the water, taking the long journey under the moonlight to get Samuel to safety, and every bone in her body was screaming at her to give up. But giving up wasn’t in her vocabulary any more, not now that she’d become part of the Resistance. She was too proud to back down from her word, and too stubborn to stop doing something that she’d set her mind to. Besides, she was certain Peter was up there somewhere, looking down on her and smiling to himself about his courageous, capable wife. It was an idea that always made her smile, and gave her the strength to keep going every time she’d longed to walk away and find somewhere to hide until the war was over. She wasn’t sure if he’d be furious or heartened that she’d stepped up to support the Resistance, but he would definitely be proud.

‘Is Samuel dead?’

She turned at the sound of Hazel’s voice. ‘I don’t know.’ It was the only honest reply she could give. ‘We got him there. Somehow we managed to weave our way to the beach undetected, and the rowboat was waiting. But then there were shots fired. We didn’t know from where or how, but it was chaos,’ Rose said. It felt like days ago, not mere hours. ‘He could have been shot in the boat for all we know, or they could have rowed their hearts out and made it. I’m hoping and praying they did, but we’ll never know.’

Rose was trying to stick to what had happened and speak matter-of-factly, but the truth was, she was heartbroken. She’d been so fond of Samuel, as she was of all the men she’d helped to save, but it wasn’t his possible death that was causing her such pain. She was pleased for the cover of dark, preferring to be bathed in blackness so the others couldn’t see the tears in her eyes. After she’d lost Peter and then her baby, she’d sworn she wouldn’t ever shed another tear, but perhaps she wasn’t as cold-hearted and closed now as she’d thought she was.

‘Josephine was the woman who recruited me,’ she managed to tell Hazel, the words hard to get out. ‘She cared for me when I was shot and showed me what to do with the men I’d saved. She was there tonight, taking her own delivery, and I saw them grab her. They dragged her across the ground as she kicked and screamed, and for a moment our eyes met.’ Rose wished they had something strong to drink with them, anything to help dull the pain inside her as she relived what had happened. ‘I thought they were going to see, that they’d follow her gaze and see me hidden, but in that moment she looked away and started to scream and struggle. We took our chance to run, and within minutes we’d heard the single gunshot.

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