Night Train to Berlin by Margaret de Rohan

Author:Margaret de Rohan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

David Quinn’s facts were not entirely correct: Tom Aikens had arrived in Berlin that afternoon, not the morning. He’d left his home, which some might have described as a mansion, in Connecticut at 7am and was chauffeur driven to JFK to fly from New York to Berlin in eight hours.

There was no one to farewell him: his two children were living away from home, one at university in Boston, and the older one already working in New York. There was no current Mrs Tom Aitkens, the previous one – his second wife – had divorced him two years earlier. However, he was never short of female companionship: his wealth was as honey to the predatory bees, mostly half his age, who ruthlessly seek out men like him. Successful men, wealthy men and, in his case, men not far from their prime with the looks to prove it. Six foot two inches tall, permanent tan – real from his regular Caribbean holidays – fair hair with a sprinkling of grey that fell foppishly over his forehead in the style of an Elizabethan dandy. Tom Aitkens was at the top of his game in more ways than one!

And with a residential address to match. Connecticut, the southernmost state in New England. Bordered to the east by Rhode Island, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south; the third smallest state in the Union.

Connecticut’s first European settlers were Dutch, who established a small, short-lived settlement in present day Hartford, the State’s capital. Half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, which included most of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers. But the first major settlements were founded in the 1630s by England and with the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies instituted documents of Fundamental Orders, which are considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662 the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. Now it is one of the wealthiest states in the US by most economic measures, although the income gap between its urban and suburban areas is unusually wide.

Tom Aitkens was every inch a son of this historic State, descended from the early Dutch pioneers and already upwardly mobile when, aged twenty-seven, his path crossed that of a young unsophisticated English girl, newly-graduated from a minor university by way of an insignificant public school. Her father, a well-educated man but a rather erratic provider for his family, had a friend in New York who owed him a favour: that was how the young Megan Ross came to New York for her three months’ work experience.

And it was that gauche girl, with her sweet-smelling hair swishing from side to side as she walked – that innocent girl with her brown eyes that seemed to know the innermost yearnings of his soul. It was

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