Eye of the Storm by C. J. Lyons

Author:C. J. Lyons [Lyons, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction/romance/suspense
Publisher: NLA Digital LLC
Published: 2014-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

DURING HER SEVENTEEN years of living, Rosa Costello had trusted no more than a handful of men—most of them now dead. She’d been fighting the Nazis for four long years, ever since she escaped the prison camp they’d sent her to after they killed her family.

She was thirteen when she killed her first German—the one who shot her little brother in the face. Chavo was only nine, unarmed, no threat to the mighty military machine of the Reich, but their orders had been to kill any gypsies too young or too old to work, or too capable of fighting back, and to send the rest to serve in a labor camp.

For all their polished boots and sharp salutes, Rosa knew the Nazis were, in their hearts, cowards. Unfortunately, she came to learn as the war became official and countries fell throughout Europe, so were most men.

Which is why this Irishman, this fisherman, this sailor who’d almost drowned until she’d plucked him from the sea’s greedy embrace, he intrigued her. Padraic Hart didn’t waste her time with stupid questions, yet he didn’t follow orders blindly. He was loyal to his men—despite the fact he was no officer—and willing to risk his life for a chance to save theirs.

She listened to him and Dex practice their roles. Dex would switch from friendly banter to mock threats and challenges but the Irishman didn’t falter. She smiled. Loyal, brave, and quick-witted. This was a man Rosa could use.

At the outskirts of Bayonne, she pulled the ambulance to the side of the road and joined the men in the rear. It was the dead of night, her favorite time.

She spread several maps over the stretcher and used her torch to illuminate them. “We’re here.” She pointed to the road. “The security checkpoints we need to get through are here and here. Villa Chagrin is here.” She indicated the prison. “We should arrive around three in the morning.”

“How do we get in?” Padraic asked. “Climb over the prison walls?”

Dex laughed. “You’d never make it. They have wire at the top of the outside wall and there’s a second inner wall that’s twelve feet high.”

“No. We hit them where they are most weak,” Rosa said. “Their people.”

“They only have three German guards,” Dex explained. “The rest are Frenchmen.”

In the dim light of her torch, Rosa saw illumination fill Padraic’s face. “So these,” he indicated his uniform, “aren’t solely to get us through the checkpoints.”

“We go in as if we belong there,” Dex said. “Order the removal of our prisoners from the prison hospital. The French won’t risk angering the Germans—”

“Or waking them,” Rosa put in.

“What if they ask me medical questions? Or to read a patient’s chart?”

“Your role isn’t to play a doctor. You’re an officer on a mission. You want those prisoners. Now.”

“Schnell, schnell,” Paddy snapped.

“Right,” Dex said with approval. “Any medical issues, you delegate to Rosa, Nurse Stein.”

“Keep the French busy,” Rosa added. “Order them to carry the patients out to the ambulance, to grab their paperwork, all their medications.

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