Nikolai by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773367361
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2023-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

Day 3 Evening

Emily sipped her tea, and tried to immerse herself in the book again, but couldn’t. When Nikolai didn’t return after ten minutes, she stared at her watch. When he didn’t come back after twenty, she got worried.

Finally she dressed, adding another layer over her long johns, heading out to see what happened to him. She used the cup of tea as a guise, as she walked into the kitchen. Several men sat around the dining room in a group, but the conversation stopped as soon as she got there. She ignored them and headed over toward the teakettle, which she put on, and sat quietly, waiting.

She didn’t bother them; they didn’t bother her, and neither did they look her way, outside of that initial warning. And yet that initial warning was probably already enough to start whatever problem there was off again.

As she waited, she heard some of their conversations resume, but the discussion was very nonspecific, which she understood too. If she had been deemed as part of the enemy, that was their problem. She didn’t have any enemy bones in her body, unless it was against injustices, and that was a whole different story. But the fact that she was also now friendly with Nikolai would only add to her isolation problem.

The reality that she would prefer to be a whole lot more than friendly with him was something for her and her alone to sort out.

Maybe Nikolai too.

As soon as anybody else knew that she was heading in that direction romantically, it would change things again—and not in a good way. She never understood how you could wind up with a situation of them or us. And yet that’s exactly what she felt she was up against.

She sympathized with the rest of the guys investigating here, trying to solve the problems because it seemed as if they were being blackballed just for doing their jobs. How did anybody get answers if you didn’t ask questions? Particularly when so many people were intentionally hiding information. All it would take is a little bit of honesty to get this all solved. But everybody had secrets and things they didn’t want to let out in the open, and, because of that, things would probably get dicey before they likely got any better.

As she looked around, she saw no sign of Chef Elijah or anybody else from the kitchen staff, but then it was already nine at night. Even inside it was cold. That same chill crept up on her too, but she knew that Nikolai had come in here, looking for tea. Yet she saw no sign of anybody in her group here now. She wondered if Nikolai had gone to bed without coming back and checking in on her, but that didn’t make sense. He’d made it very clear that he would check in on her, if for no other reason than to stop her from worrying. Right now, worrying is exactly what she was doing. As she looked around at the dining room again, there was still no sign of him.

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