Chapter 12
NELLIE SPED DOWN the rest of the staircase and didn’t stop running until she was in the corridor.
Her cheeks glowed, her heart thudded.
She had wondered how Dora and the others had known it was her birthday. Wim had even said a guard told him.
That guard was Henrik, but how did Henrik know?
How? How?
Unless back when she was a young girl and had admired him from a distance, he had taken more notice of her than she realised and remembered things about her.
Unless she had been wrong that he never saw her back then.
He was a married man, by the Triune. She remembered the day he married a girl called Martha. They looked so pretty together. She was a nice girl. They had two daughters. What was he even doing talking to her like this?
Nellie’s heart was still racing by the tim
