Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

Author:Martha Hall Kelly [Kelly, Martha Hall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781987159790
Amazon: 1987159799
Goodreads: 40988979
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2019-04-08T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

29

Sofya

1917

The next morning I woke with a start on a cot in Olga and Tatiana’s room, to see a black wrinkled face staring down at me, tongue drooping out of her mouth.

“Come here, Ortipo,” I said and pulled the French bulldog from the adjacent chair onto my stomach. She made herself at home on my chest, panting meaty little breaths in my face. How good it had been to sleep in a bed, even just a camp cot. I stroked Ortipo’s soft back and admired the room, a pretty, if a bit messy, extension of Olga and Tatiana. Framed pictures of happier days hung on the walls: with their father aboard the imperial yacht, the family posed on the tennis court. Flowered drapes flanked the tall windows, painted ribbons and birds flew along the tops of the walls, and books and little standing frames covered the desks and dressing tables.

Just the thought of my family back in Malinov sent my stomach aching. How were Agnessa and Father getting along? Had Luba succeeded in hiding my absence? Though Olga and Tatiana seemed dedicated to planning my escape, they had their own problems.

I reached for the letters under my pillow. After a cold sponge bath, I’d stayed up reading Eliza’s letter from New York.

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