The Girl with a Secret: An epic, gripping and heart-wrenching World War 2 novel (The Emerald Sisters Book 2) by Kate Hewitt

Author:Kate Hewitt [Hewitt, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

Half an hour later, Rosa found herself in a classroom at the Oratory School in Brompton, attached to the magnificent church, where an interrogation unit had been set up. Her father had been separated from her as soon as they had exited the Black Maria; wildly, Rosa had wondered when—and even if—she would ever see him again.

She’d briefly glimpsed the massive, ornate dome of the church before she’d been ushered into the school and brought to a hallway that had clearly been requisitioned for women who had been arrested. Classrooms had been turned into interrogation rooms, and various women—suspects—sat in chairs along the walls, waiting for their turn to be questioned. Rosa saw that some looked terrified, others resigned; some were dressed in their finest clothes, others shabbily, in garments that were well-worn and patched. There was a mother with two young children, one of them weeping quietly as she put her arms around her, and another woman who glared at everyone whose eye she chanced to meet. Some spoke German, in low, fearful voices; others spoke flawless English. Yet they were all here; they were all under suspicion… just as she was.

Rosa waited on a wooden chair outside one of the classrooms, her body twanging with tension, her eyes gritty with fatigue, her mind racing down dead-ends. What was happening to her father? What would her mother do, if both she and her father were, heaven forbid, taken somewhere? What about her job, her life? What about Peter? She shuddered to think how he might react, knowing she’d been called in for questioning. Having to tell him why…

Finally, after an endless hour, she was called into one of the classrooms.

Two stony-faced men in plain clothes sat at the front, a typed sheet that Rosa couldn’t read lying on the desk before them. Managing to murmur a greeting, she perched on the edge of a chair set on the opposite of the desk, tucking her hands under her thighs. Already she felt queasy, lightheaded, her heart beginning to hammer.

Then the questions began—one after the other, relentless, merciless. Did she support the German nation and its military and political aspirations? Had she been in contact with anyone of Nazi sympathies since she’d arrived in Great Britain? Had she given money to any organization that supported Nazi endeavors? Was she willing to engage in war work that would be to the detriment of her native country?

“I am Jewish…” Rosa said, her tone turning more desperate with each answer, her German accent becoming more pronounced, in her agitation. “I have no allegiance to Germany… none at all… I left it because I didn’t want to be there… you know what the Nazis have been doing to Jews…” Her voice trailed away as one of the officers folded his hands on top of the table in a way that made her fear for what he would say next.

“You see, Miss Herzelfeld,” he remarked in a tone that was decidedly cool, “we are in a bit of a quandary.

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