Into the Iron Shadows (Shadows of War Book 5) by CW Browning

Author:CW Browning [Browning, CW]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

Josephine looked up, closing the book in her hands when a short, stocky man emerged from the kitchen door. She was sitting in the small garden behind his house, leaning against a tree, reading. She was having trouble concentrating on the pages, however, and her mind had been wandering for the past twenty minutes or more.

“They are ready,” he announced with a nod. “You may come and look if you like.”

Josephine jumped to her feet and walked towards him. Yves Michaud was nothing like what she had been expecting when they set out to come here last night. Marc’s friends, the few she’d met over the past year, were young men like himself. Yves Michaud was in his forties if he was a day, and Josephine wondered if he was perhaps even older than that. That he was used to working outside and tending the grape vines in the adjoining field was obvious from his tanned skin and heavily calloused hands. Yet those hands had spent most of the night working on the papers that would bestow on her a whole new identity.

“Fantastic!”

She followed him into the house and through the kitchen to the small room he called his workroom. It was where he’d taken several photographs of her when she arrived. The lights were off now, and the work desk was cleared of the clutter that had been there early this morning. In its place were her new papers.

“You have everything you need here, all the vital records,” he said, walking over to the table. “Passport, certificate of birth with both parent’s names, certificate of baptism, and I’ve included a marriage license for your parents.”

“Who are my new parents?”

Yves smiled. “They were a couple who really existed. They moved to Morocco, and died there a few years ago during a Typhoid fever outbreak.”

“Children?”

“Not until now.” He picked up the birth certificate and handed it to her. “My sincere condolences on the loss of your parents.”

“Thank you.” Josephine took the paper and carried it over to examine it in the light from the window. “Jeannine Renaud?”

“I try to keep the initials the same when possible. I’ve found that most people who come to me have something with their initials on that they don’t want to part with. This can create confusion if it is ever found.” Yves cleared his throat and looked at her closely. “You understand, of course, what this will entail? You must destroy anything that connects you to your old life. Josephine Rousseau must cease to exist. She is dead. Gone. Jeannine Renaud is who you are now.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“And you understand that it includes anyone who might know and recognize you as Josephine?”

Josephine paused in her examination of the document and grew still, lifting her head, her eyes widening. He nodded wisely.

“I thought as much. You were going to stay with someone? A family member perhaps?”

“An old friend.” Josephine exhaled. “I didn’t even think…but of course, you’re right. She’s expecting Josephine.”

“I’d suggest a change in travel itinerary.

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