Rendezvous in Berlin - A WW2 Novel: Flying with the Swallows, Volume Two by Cat Gardiner

Author:Cat Gardiner [Gardiner, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unionport Hill Books
Published: 2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Three

All or Nothing at All

April 27—Tuesday Evening

Now that Wegener’s military business had been addressed, there was no deterring his advances. The moment of truth was at hand and she gazed out the bedroom window facing Oberbaum Bridge, repeating a Barrett Browning sonnet to offset her nerves, but her mind wandered to the events of the evening.

As he promised the day before, they danced at some touted Kabarett night club for hours, and she had genuinely kept her smile in place as he recounted his visit with his father and tales from his youth. Anyone would have guessed they were fashionable Berliners, long-time lovers enjoying a night out. They got along famously, and the longer the drinks flowed, the lower his guard was. After dinner and the dark-humored “artistic show,” his libido had been sufficiently stirred. He whispered his erotic plans for ravishing her when they returned to his apartment. Then the seduction over schnapps began in earnest.

Again, he said he missed her.

He also said he was truly sorry for having been so crass and aggressive on their last night together. She impertinently asked why he had treated her so disrespectfully but he could only account for disappointment, her contrary nature, and bad news over the telephone.

He said he was a lonely man in need of companionship.

She asked him what made him so, and he divulged that his wife Elise had been killed in a tragic accident five years ago and he had yet to meet her equal—until now. Her heart tugged ever so slightly, so she could not bring herself to ask of children. He never mentioned the child in the photograph. And, although it shouldn’t matter, she felt relieved to not be a homewrecker, nor he an adulterer. She thought better of him, sympathetic to his pain. He was a widower, as she a widow, having come through the heaviness of loss and survivorship.

He said he cared for her deeply, explaining how he needed a sophisticated, domesticated woman like her, a true Deutscher Mädel to share his bed, give him children, keep his home—to take care of him.

She toyed with him, asking why he thought she could be “the one” so soon; he said he could not fathom it himself beyond how she made him feel like a man—not a once-lowly fisherman turned military officer. He could never compare to others in the great Reich—not like the Führer’s favorite Generalfeldmarschall Keitel—but she made Wegener feel like the Reichsführer!

He said she would be his tonight.

She said nothing, hoping he would be too drunk to perform or remember anything.

As the night wore on, his gentlemanly veneer slipped to the fisherman. The salty vulgarity of his German language was made all the more guttural by his choice of bawdy words: “Ich möchte dich um meinen Schwanz betteln hören.”

He wanted to hear her beg for his Schwanz…but she did not beg, just nodded with a coy smile, ran her fingers up through the back of his hair, and kissed him.

Ten minutes later, he whisked her out the door, walking through the darkened, empty city to his apartment.

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