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It Continued in London - Chapter 01
Duke of Beaufort’s Badminton Estate, South Gloucestershire, Britain – Friday, 9 June 1939
“My word,” Laurence Grand said. “She’s here. Have you ever seen a more gorgeous creature?” Harry Underwood turned his head, trying to focus in the glare given off by the huge chandeliers, only slightly alleviated by the flags draped around the chamber, the Union Jack, resplendent in red, white blue … or by the splendid uniforms with which the two Englishmen were surrounded, not to mention the bare shoulders and glittering jewellery of the gorgeous girls in attendance at this ‘Empire Party’ hosted by Henry Somerset the 10th Duke of Beaufort, inside his rolling South Gloucestershire Estate at Badminton.
Up to this moment Underwood had found the whole thing inexpressibly vulgar. A lavish party to celebrate London’s position as the largest city in the world and the capital of not just Britain, but the whole of the British Empire, and on this day of all days the King might well be putting his arm around Roosevelt right now across in the good old US of bloody A … but we all know war is coming and we had nothing better to do but get pissed in the Gloucestershire countryside. There must surely have been a better way to meet this girl.
“Yes, sir … sorry, I mean no, sir,” he agreed with his superior. “Very much worth a second look.” Or a third, or a fourth, or even a hundredth, Underwood had already decided. The woman in question had just entered the ballroom on the arm of a man wearing a perfectly fitted black dinner suit. His slicked back hair and chiselled features marked him out as a stereotypical German Aryan male. He was handsome enough, and his suit was immaculate, but he was utterly insignificant beside his companion.
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The girl looked tall in her fashionable high heels and held a perfect posture, almost matching her escort for height, and she moved with a regal grace. Her face was more than pretty … and her mouth, coated in bright red, was the most sensual thing Underwood had ever seen. At this distance he could not see her eyes, but imagined they were like the color of her hair, a bewitchingly lustrous caramel brown.
She wore a pale-blue off-the-shoulder sheath evening gown, which clung to her body like a second skin, accentuating her slender legs, delineating her slim hips, and with bullet like nipples poking through the fabric suggesting that the two thin straps over her shoulders were utterly unnecessary, at least for holding the dress up. A diamond-encrusted pendant was suspended on a gold chain, nestling into her décolletage, and she wore a pair of matching earrings. But the crowning glory was her hair, which in total contrast to the bobbed curls so prevalent in Britain, was worn long, and lay in straight, wonderous magnificence below her shoulder blades.
“So now is your opportunity to meet the famous, or is it infamous, Fräulein Barbara Mohr.
“Erm … she appears to have an escort, sir.”
“Ah, that is Aron Bernstein.”
“Oh really,” Underwood’s look said ‘please explain sir’.
“Bernstein is a licensed commercial pilot, registered in Hamburg, who is wanted by the Gestapo for his subterfuge in flying so called ‘miscreants of the Reich’ out of that city. He arrived on our shores along with Miss Mohr, and is another potential operative for us. What he is not Underwood, is her romantic partner. So, she is … um … potentially all yours …”
“So their only commonality is that they both oppose the German Government?” Underwood sought further clarification.
“Indeed, that is the case. He is both an outlawed pilot and Jewish, and she is a wanted member of the growing resistance movement … who just happens to also be Joachim Mohr’s daughter.”
“So I imagine being the daughter of the Hamburg based financier, industrialist and shipping magnate is one of the reasons why we have such an interest in Miss Mohr?”
“Indeed Henry, along of course, with her own dissident views …”
“Does she speak English?”
“An educated girl like Barbara, from a wealthy and influential family like die Familie Mohr, speaks not just English and German but French too. So do not worry about having to learn German in order to communicate with her,” Major Grand grinned. “Wait here Henry.”
Henry watched his boss move away and stand on the edge of the dance floor. He spoke with a uniformed officer, who nodded and smiled as they conversed briefly.
Grand re-joined Henry. “She’s on her way over, old chap.”
“Oh, well done, Sir. Just watching her dance … Look at the way that German lout is holding her, pressing her against him. It makes a gentleman’s blood boil.”
“It doesn’t seem to be bothering her Henry. However, I think there is something you should know.”
“Don’t tell me she’s married.”
“No, she’s not married. But …”
“But sir?”
Grand paused before adding, “She was, at least according to our intelligence, severely tortured and sexually assaulted by the Gestapo when she was arrested, and so …”
“The bloody bounders. So go gently with her Sir. Yes, I know that drill well enough.”
“Good man Henry.”
“But holding back with a beauty like her will be …” He checked what he was going to say as the music stopped and the young officer who had been accosted minutes earlier by Grand, approached, leading Miss Mohr by the elbow; her Germanic partner had disappeared into the throng leaving the floor.
Breathing slightly heavily from her exertions, cheeks a little pink, the girl, when standing only feet away, was more beautiful than ever … though the faint scars on her chest, peeking out from behind her jewelry, bore shocking testimony to her treatment at the hands of the Gestapo.
“Miss Mohr, may I present Captain Henry Underwood,” the young officer interjected, “He works for the British Government.”
The young man smiled.
“Captain Underwood, I would like you to meet Miss Barbara Mohr.”
“It’s the Foreign Office, actually,” Underwood said, and bent his head over her hand. “But this is a very great pleasure, Miss Mohr.”
“And for me, Mr Underwood.” Barbara replied, in perfect but lightly German accented English, whilst allowing his lips to touch her white-gloved knuckles. Miss Mohr’s voice was a sensual purr, and entirely in keeping with the rest of her delectable appearance.
“And this gentleman?” Barbara asked.
“Oh, this is …” The officer began, only to have the Head of SIS Section D cut in.
“Major Laurence Douglas Grand at your service Miss Mohr,” and he duly repeated the gentle kiss to her hand.
Room 212 The Savoy Hotel, The Strand, City of Westminster, London, Early hours of Saturday, 10 June1939.
“So, you work for the British Government Henry?” Barbara asked.
Henry Underwood’s breathing returned to normal and he rolled on his side to face Barbara and play with her exposed nipple.
“We work for the SIS.”
Barbara also moved onto her side so that she could face her new found lover, both to make it easier for him to reach her and also to look at him.
“What is the SIS?”
Underwood knew that Laurence Grand wanted to recruit this girl and so he was certain that sharing some fundamental details of the Service was in order. “The Secret Intelligence Service. It has several branches. We work for Military Intelligence Section D.”
Barbara rose on her elbows, and his fingers slipped away. “You mean you’re a spy?”
“Oh, good lord, no. I mean, well . . . I suppose I have been trained to be an agent, but right now we are focussed simply on collecting intelligence.”
“Oh, I see …” She responded walking her fingers up his chest, “… so I have just been fucked by a very important man,” she grinned at him, before kissing him on the nose allowing the thin sheet to fall away from her naked body
With a grin of his own he took hold of her again, this time pulling her against him.
“A very, very Important man, Barbara,” his smile turned into a smirk.
“Mmmmm, that is such a turn on Mister Underwood. Will you protect me with your life then?”
Henry Underwood felt his cock stiffening again. “That won’t be necessary,” he quipped.
“Oh, and why is that may I ask?”
“Because Miss Mohr, I am never letting you out of this bed, ever again!”
TBC