Jewels (1992) by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-12-19T00:40:25.406000+00:00

"Than at Whitfield?" She looked surprised and it seemed an odd thing to say to her, as she looked at him with a puzzled frown, wondering what he meant.

"Not necessarily Whitfield, but England. Sooner or later, the Luftwaffe will turn its full force on Britain. It will be better for you to be here then." She wondered if he was right, and as they walked back to the cottage afterwards she wondered if he had told her anything he shouldn't. She assumed that the British knew all about the Luftwaffe's plans, and maybe he was right, maybe it was safer here. But whether or not it was, she had no choice now. She was his prisoner.

She didn't see him again for a few days, and at the very end of July, she ran into him again in the forest. He seemed distracted and tired, but he cheered up when she thanked him for the food that had begun appearing outside the cottage. First, berries for the child, and then a basket of fruit for all of them, loaves of fresh bread that their bakers were making at the chateau, and carefully wrapped in newspaper and well hidden from prying eyes, a kilo of real coffee.

"Thank you," she said cautiously. "You don't have to do that." He didn't owe them anything. They were the forces of the Occupation.

"I'm not going to eat, while you starve." His cook had made a wonderful Sacher torte for him the night before, and he was planning to take the rest of it to her himself that night, but he didn't mention it as they walked slowly back to the cottage. She seemed to be slowing down, and he noticed that in the past week, she had gotten considerably larger. "Is there anything else you need, Your Grace?"

She smiled at him. He always addressed her by her title. "You know, I suppose you really could call me Sarah." He already knew that was her name. He had seen it when he had taken her passport. And he knew that she was about to turn twenty-four years old in a few more weeks. He knew her parents' names, and their addresses in New York, and how she felt about some things, but he knew very little else about her. And his curiosity about her knew no bounds. He thought about her more than he would have admitted. But she sensed none of that, as she walked with him. She sensed only that he was a caring man, and as best he could, given his position here, he wanted to help her.

"Very well then, Sarah," he said it carefully, like a great honor, as he smiled at her, and she noticed for the first time that he was actually very handsome. Usually, he looked so serious that one didn't notice. But as they came out into a sunny part of the woods, for just a moment, he had looked years younger. "You shall be Sarah and I shall be Joachim, but only when we are alone.

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