The Lost Girl of Berlin: Gripping and heart-wrenching World War 2 historical fiction (Daughters of New York) by Ella Carey

Author:Ella Carey [Carey, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800192164
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2021-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

An hour later, Frances sat in a taxi driving around and around New York. She was going in circles, instructing the driver to travel around the blocks of Manhattan, because she had no idea where to go. The city lights, staring at them, had become like a mantra, a comfort, in the dark world she’d landed in tonight. Returning to the apartment she shared with Willard was impossible. Frances wanted to go home, and she couldn’t.

Where was home?

Frances knew she could not be alone tonight. She yearned, now, not to have the answer, not to know about Daisy McKinnon, not to care about Daisy McKinnon, to be able to turn a blind eye to Willard’s indiscretion as so many of the women in her circles did. But the fact was, she did care, she did want her family to work, and she did, in spite of everything, want her husband, and the life she loved, back.

As the taxi sat in a traffic jam on Park Avenue, horns honking and the taxi driver sitting rigid taking her she knew not where, Frances fought catastrophic thoughts of sitting like this, alone, for the rest of her life.

A light, chill rain started to fall, and the windows of the taxi turned to liquid, rendering the lights of the city into indistinct streams. “Could you take me to Central Park West,” she told the driver.

“Central Park West? Sure. You’re paying, lady,” he said, shaking his head.

Frances slumped back in her seat. She’d not caught a taxi in an age. Willard had a town car and a driver as the director of the bank. And she supposed Daisy McKinnon was in that town car, comfortably ensconced with her husband tonight.

After Willard’s rushed departure, Frances had stayed at the table and she’d requested a newspaper. The New York Times. And then she’d requested yesterday’s paper. And the one from last weekend.

Opening that, finally, Frances had found what she sought in the Broadway Theater section. The face of a blonde girl with almond-shaped eyes smiling out at her. She was a child. The star of some new musical that was debuting later in the month called A Family Affair. Frances had laid the article aside, breathing, in, out, in, out, sending the waiter a watery smile when he’d come by her table. She’d fought an intense desire to take off her shoes and run. Just run out of the restaurant into the pouring rain and soak it up. All of it.

Instead, she’d sat frozen, with a frozen smile.

Was it a relief? Knowing there was a girl?

No, it wasn’t. It only hurt more; the pain that pierced her insides had just become so much more intense.

She’d always been faithful.

Oh, she’d been approached by other men when she’d first started going out with Willard. Once they were going out regularly for dinner and to the theater, she’d been loyal to him and not looked at another man.

And now, he’d torn every fathom of respect for her in two.

Daisy McKinnon was playing the lead role in this musical, some girl named Sally.

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