War Girls Complete Collection Chapter 93

Chapter 5

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abine slept fitfully all night, plagued with nightmares about dark-clothed men coming after her and asking for Frau Klausen. In the morning she woke with a shock to find a big man standing in front of her bed on this sunny Sunday morning.

Her heart racing, it took her almost a minute until she shook off the remains of her dream and recognized Werner, who’d just returned from his night shift.

“Sabine? What’s wrong? Are you ill?” He sat down beside her, frowning when he clasped her cold hands. He pulled them between his own and started rubbing them. “Sabine. Talk to me, please! You were screaming in your sleep.”

She shook her head and gave the shadow of a smile. “It’s nothing; I just had a bad dream.”

“A bad dream? That’s all it was?” He slipped beneath the covers at her side and wrapped his arms around her. “You’re still shivering.”

She couldn’t deny the truth of his words as she struggled to draw breath. Too strong were the images of the dark-clad men…Since Werner wouldn’t give up until he’d coaxed the truth out of her, she decided to let the cat out of the bag. “Lily asked me to spy on a coworker who supposedly is an enemy of the Reich.”

Werner drew in a breath and she felt his heartbeat speeding up. “She wants you to spy for the Gestapo?”

“She never mentioned the Gestapo by name, but I guess so. She said I would be generously rewarded for relaying information and would do my country a great service.” Sabine turned in his arms to look into his eyes. “Werner, I’m scared. I don’t want to get involved with these people.”

He squeezed her hands and nodded, his voice serene. “Just as well. SD, SS, or Gestapo – one agency is worse than the next. It’s best to stay as far away from them as possible.”

She knew he talked from experience. In his work as a fireman he was often forced to work closely together with those agencies and he rarely found a nice word to say about any of them.

“What did you tell her?” he asked after a long silence.

“That I would think about it,” Sabine said, leaning against his warm chest. In his arms she felt safe, in his arms she’d even confront the Gestapo.

“That’s good. Continue to let her believe you are considering her proposal. Stall for more time. In fact, we should think about leaving the country.”

Sabine groaned. “That’s a little drastic, don’t you think? Nobody’s going to do me any harm, just because I refuse to become a spy. I haven’t done anything wrong. Neither have you. We’re both law-abiding citizens, we have nothing to fear.”

Werner looked at her with fear in his beautiful blue-grey eyes. “Things have changed. They’re not what they used to be.”

“You think I’m wrong?”

“I think you’re being naïve if you believe there is nothing to it. I’ve seen firsthand how these thugs operate.”

Sabine rested her head on his chest once more, and Werner rubbed his hand up and down her back. She wore only her nightgown and when he slipped one hand beneath it, she forgot all about Lily’s proposal and turned her head to give him access to her lips.

“I want you and since you don’t have to leave for work, there’s no need to rush,” he murmured against the soft skin of her neck. Sabine purred her agreement and he divested her of the nightgown before he slipped out of his own clothes and made sweet love to her.

Several hours later, while Werner slept, she prepared a meal for them and took it upstairs on a tray to wake him up.

“I love you,

Schätzchen

,” he said when he opened his eyes and then invited her to sit beside him and share the meal. “Promise me you’ll be careful in dealing with Lily?”