In Satan's Shadow by Miller John Anthony

Author:Miller, John Anthony [Miller, John Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Published: 2016-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 40

Amanda left York’s room and walked into the hallway, closing the door behind her. She glanced in both directions, saw no one, and started for the back entrance. Just as she turned the corner, the door to a nearby room opened and a man stepped out. It was Manfred Richter.

She stopped short, leaning back against the wall. There was nowhere to hide. He was only six meters away.

He paused in the corridor, the door to the room still open, his back to Amanda. He didn’t turn around.

“Are you coming, Anna?” he asked, focused on the room.

“Yes, darling, just give me a minute,” a female voice called.

A slender blond emerged, kissed him lightly on the lips, and then wrapped her arm in his. They strolled down the hallway, oblivious to Amanda Hamilton standing in the shadows behind them.

Amanda stood motionless, shocked and stunned. She stayed in the corridor, hiding in a darkened recess used for storage, struggling to cope with yet another of Manfred’s mistresses. She stayed there for almost ten minutes, until she was sure they were gone.

She left the hotel, dazed and distraught, blind to traffic and pedestrians. As she crossed the street she was almost hit by a bicyclist, even though he shouted a warning. But she didn’t care if he hit her or not. She ignored the Nazi flags that dominated every aspect of Berlin life, and kept walking, her eyes seeing nothing, her mind knowing the way. When she entered her front door, she barely remembered how she got there.

No one was home when she arrived, not even Hannah. She went to her sanctuary, the music room and photography studio where she spent her private moments, and sat in a plush leather chair. Her violin sat untouched on a stand beside her while she stared vacantly at the wall. Minutes became hours as the last ten years of her life drifted through her mind, the days and weeks jumbled and confused, images distorted and disjointed. She wondered just how many other women were in his life. There was this blond named Anna, the redhead during the winter, the bank manager, Greta Baumgartner. Who else? How many more?

Her life was a farce. She had convinced herself that she had a good marriage, even though she now realized she never did. She had thought her husband was a great man; she now knew he wasn’t, and never was. She was sure he was in love with her; she now suspected he never was.

She had changed her whole life for him, surrendering who she was and all she had become. She had transformed into a German wife, living in a strange land, learning a new language, becoming everything he wanted her to be − and losing herself in the process.

Yet she had still excelled musically, even in a strange place, taking center stage and becoming the most popular violinist in Germany. It had been difficult. As a foreigner, she had always been viewed with suspicion and mistrust, although it waned with the passing years.

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