Nazi Gold (Order of the Black Sun Book 5) by Child P.W

Author:Child, P.W. [Child, P.W.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18 – Confessions and Revelations

“Hey, who said you could smoke here?” Sam snapped in a whisper, startling Nina into a surge of cuss words. Her reaction amused him no end. He had followed her as she snuck out to the third floor hall balcony for a quick smoke before bed. Behind her silhouette, slightly lit by the exterior lights of the building, the sky reached from horizon to horizon in a visibly curved, star strewn dome. By the face of the sky it seemed that the stars of a hundred galaxies chose this night to gather over the Brdy Forest.

“Geez, look at that,” Sam remarked when the breathtaking panorama caught his eye.

“I know, right? How amazing is this view? Imagine living here permanently,” Nina marveled as Sam took the halfway smoked cigarette from her to take a drag.

“Aye. I don’t think these owners fully appreciate what they have here. They are so used to it,” he answered. Sam looked at Nina while she gazed up at the midnight sky, her head tilted dangerously far back. A thin knitted blanket graced her shoulders and hung down to her knees to guard against the cold. In front of her chest she held the two edges together with her hand while the woodland breathed its night wind over the magnificent old structure and occasionally compelled the blanket’s fringe to lift in corrugated cadence.

“I have been meaning to ask you how your treatment is going,” Sam said matter-of-factly, not bothering to notice that he had now annexed Nina’s smoke. “Are you still having episodes or have they disappeared?”

Nina sighed. She did not want Sam to know that she had been suffering from the strange time-loss dips and that she could hardly tell reality from dreams sometimes. Still, he was always her trusted confidant and she could share anything with him without fearing judgment.

“It is nearing the end, which is a relief,” she chose to say.

“My god, Nina, are you going to make it till Christmas? Because I have already bought your present and I’d hate to have to return it,” he jested, teasing her choice of words. Nina reached a hand from under the blanket and dealt him a hefty tap in the gut, which had him groaning.

“Careful, I am still tender from that street orgy in Germany!” he moaned playfully. Nina’s smile waned into a wince of guilt at the mention of her tardiness that almost sealed Sam’s doom.

“Oi, it was not your fault,” he soothed with a hand on her back that sent a pleasant shock through her body on contact. “Now, tell me how you are doing with the arsenic problem.”

“There is nothing better to report than last time, old boy,” she shrugged. “I will live, but there is some damage done that will probably pose a problem for the rest of my life.”

“What manner of damage is that?” he asked, standing closer.

Sam’s close proximity brought with it the alluring odor of his skin and Nina breathed him in deeply without letting him see.

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