Krista's Dilemma by Jackson Gemma

Author:Jackson, Gemma
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Amazon Bestseller, Historical Irish Fiction, Gemma Jackson, Kindle Unlimited
ISBN: 9781781994597
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Published: 2021-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Krista pulled one of the two easy chairs kept tucked away in the boot room – an out-of-the-way large dark room off the kitchen – towards the range. She’d already added coal to the range fire. The two chairs were kept for the rare occasions staff could sit at their ease. She was wearing heavy men’s pyjamas and a robe. She had planned to fill a hot-water bottle and take it up to bed with her but the silence and welcoming heat of the kitchen had tempted her to remain.

She opened the door of the range to uncover the blazing fire inside. She kicked off her fleece-lined leather slippers, curling her legs up onto the seat of the wide soft chair. She stared into the flames of the fire, practically begging the wheels in her mind to stop turning. She wanted to sleep – wanted this day to be over. Peggy was with her family. She’d had to almost push the young woman out the door. She wanted, no needed, to be alone.

New Year’s Eve – the last day of the year. If she had remained in France with the Dumas family – at this time of this day – she would have been exhausted but unable to seek her bed until the last of the drunken revellers left the bar/tabac. She wondered where Philippe Dumas was spending this evening. She hoped he was in good company enjoying himself. Philippe, the young man she thought was her brother. Philippe, the one who had informed her she was no relation of the Dumas family. He had set her free with his words, did he but know it. Philippe had run away from his family, unable to fight their support of Hitler and his bully boys. He had fled the auberge only hours before Krista had been forced to flee. Had he found people to help him?

New Year’s Eve, she supposed, was a time of reflection. Time to think of the year past and plan for the year ahead. She bit back a sob. She was not feeling sorry for herself. She was frightened. What would the coming year, 1939, hold for her? She had changed her life by running away from the Dumas family – from her life of servitude at the Auberge du Ville. She had found help, people who seemed to want to assist her. Was it ungrateful of her to resent that some of the people she had met wanted to use her?

There had been no mention made of paying her by Brown or Perry. The money Lia Caulfield paid her was a small amount and could be considered pin money. It was very difficult for a single woman to earn enough to support herself. It was all very well for people who had family money behind them to volunteer their services but she needed to support herself. She couldn’t live on fresh air. Captain Waters had paid her generously for her journey into Germany. That money

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