Wives of War by Soraya M. Lane

Author:Soraya M. Lane [Lane, Soraya M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503942769
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2017-06-30T18:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Ellie

The wind was cool against her cheeks as she walked, and Ellie was the closest to happy that she’d been in a long while. She was away from the hospital, from the smell of blood and dead soldiers that usually haunted every moment of her every day. She’d woken to Scarlet shaking her gently and passing her a cup of their awful Compo tea, and it had been the first time she’d swallowed it down without wanting to moan. Maybe she was getting used to it. Rumour had it that they’d be able to pay for a hot bath and a real coffee in town, and she’d been looking forward to it for days. Anything would be better than tea made from dehydrated tea, milk and sugar that all came in one big cube and was brewed in a bucket. It made her stomach churn even thinking about the bucket being passed around the entire tent.

Some of the other nurses had already been into town for a bath and extra food, and now that they were actually getting some time off, she couldn’t wait to do the same. She thought of Spencer then, how desperate he must be for a hot bath, too. The poor man had been working as hard as they, doing surgery after surgery, a constant rotation of amputations and patching men up as best he could. But even though his face was so pale and drawn, his body exhausted, he’d always managed to give her a smile, a brush of his lips to her cheek, a quick squeeze of her shoulder if she passed him. They’d hardly seen one another, but when they had, he’d made it clear that he was there for her. He was special, her Spencer, and the more she observed his manner, how he treated every single patient with such respect and dignity, the more she loved him.

‘So do you know his name yet?’ Scarlet asked Lucy.

‘Nope. I know nothing more about him now than I did the day I met him.’

Ellie tuned into the conversation, abandoning her thoughts of Spencer to give them her attention. They’d both looked after her, been so kind and caring, and she wanted to enjoy her few hours off with them.

‘Why hasn’t he been sent away already?’ Ellie asked.

She watched as Lucy shrugged. ‘Something to do with the Yanks coming to check over any of their men we might have. There’s another American soldier in the ward, too.’

‘Do you still believe it’s his wife in that photo?’ Scarlet asked. ‘Or his sweetheart?’

Ellie hoped for Lucy’s sake that it wasn’t, because it was clear that her friend was fond of the man. Lucy was always so focused on the job, acted like nothing could distract her, and then along had come this man with his memory loss and his cute smile.

‘It has to be, doesn’t it? I mean . . .’ Lucy sighed. ‘I don’t know. I like him a lot, but then I think that has something to do with helping to save him.

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