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The Last Flight. Chapter 20
Date: 7/13/2015, Categories: Lesbian, Author: Annamagique, Rating: 5, Source: LushStories
and that it was not going to be an easy task to push them back to Germany. One boy in particular, Harry Simmonds, knew me as a neighbour but saw me as a drunken coward and wasn't afraid to remind me when I tried to teach him not to be too gung-ho.” “You lied to me?” I struggled to get the words out, my mouth and throat suddenly bone dry, “After all that has happened, you lied to me?” I turned to Françoise and glared at her, feeling my heart breaking as the one person I trusted seemed to be keeping things from me. “And you knew about it?” I said slowly, shaking now, “And you said nothing?” She squeezed my forearm firmly. “Let your father tell his story, Karen, wait until he is finished before you make judgement.” I turned back to him and stared hard at his face. I could see the anguish as he waited patiently so I listened, trembling inside. “Your mother never said a word about what happened to you those few years before. As I said, Simmonds was a young recruit who had joined us from training. He was cocky, knew it all. I tried my best to get him to be a little less certain of his abilities, to make him realise that the enemy were very real and not yet beaten, who would try to kill him at every opportunity they had but he wouldn't listen. Although I was a corporal he just treated me with contempt. He always delighted in calling me an old drunk, in telling me how useless I was and when I threatened to charge him he would just say, 'go on then, lets see what they would think of ...