Rose of Anzio - Jalousie (Volume 2): A WWII Epic Love Story by Kang Alexa

Author:Kang, Alexa [Kang, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Alexa Kang
Published: 2016-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

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The ceremony to honor the nurse trainees who completed the Nurses Specialized Training Program was a low-key affair. The event included a few speeches and an official recognition of each of the trainees. All that suited Tessa fine. It saved her from having to explain to anyone why no one from her family attended. She still hadn't told anyone outside of the hospital she was on course to accept an assignment overseas. She was not ready to break the news to the Ardleys or her parents.

She still had not found any way to get assigned to the 3rd Division. She felt so silly now to have thought she could make this happen by sheer force of will.

Sitting alone on a bench in the hospital courtyard, she watched her fellow trainees and their families celebrate and roam about. It was now too late to back out. If she couldn't get the assignment she wanted, she would still have to deploy. But at least, her service overseas would be her own choice. She would be dealing with the war on her own terms. If she could not be with Anthony, she would still be doing the same thing he was doing.

That was all she could think of to console herself.

"Tessa," Sarah came over with her parents and a photographer in tow. "Won't you take a photo with me and my parents?"

Tessa smiled in agreement and the photographer took a snapshot.

"I'll tell the photographer to make a copy for you," Sarah said and insisted that Tessa join her and her parents at the luncheon reception that followed. On their way to the reception, Sarah pulled her aside. "Any response from anyone about your assignment?"

Tessa shook her head.

Sarah put her arm around Tessa's arm. "I've been thinking, why don't you try asking General Castile to help you?"

"You want me to ask General Castile?" That was preposterous. "That mean, full of himself, pompous…"

"He may be all that." Sarah didn't let her finish. "But you practically saved his son. Who knows what would have happened to Ron if it weren't for you? If you ask me, the general owes you a big favor."

"I don't know." Castile was the last person from whom Tessa wanted to plead for a favor. "I haven't exactly been respectful to him. I don't like him, and I don't think he likes me very much."

"He's still a general," Sarah said. "He can probably make things happen where others can't."

Tessa raised her head and looked ahead. Castile? Would she really have to go to Castile?

She lost all appetite for the luncheon reception.

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