Madame Fiocca by Suzy Henderson

Author:Suzy Henderson [Henderson, Suzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avis Press
Published: 2019-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

The wind howled as it nipped at the sides of the stone barn. Inside was freezing, riddled with draughts and I thought to myself it would be just as warm sleeping outside. At least it had a roof. We lay huddled together for warmth. I sat snuggled between O’Leary and the New Zealander. It was times such as these when morals and modesty had to take a back seat. Survival was key, but it didn’t stop me from wondering what Henri would think if he saw me now. Under any other circumstance I would have laughed, but here, trapped in such a predicament, I felt like crying. Life seemed to be at its bleakest and darkest ebb. The French Resistance worker was on watch duty, although I was convinced he was asleep as he seemed to have been in the same position for the last hour, either that or he’d frozen to death. It was our second night in the barn. A bath and a fresh change of clothes was desperately needed if only to help me feel human again. My eyes grew lead-heavy, fluttered, and I gave up fighting the darkness, the darkness from which the Germans and the Milice had an annoying habit of waking and pulling you from in the middle of the night. Did anyone ever sleep properly anymore?

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