دانلود رمان انگلیسی “کتابدار مخفی”

The woman they called Little Rabbit stood shoulder to shoulder with her husband, their backs pressed against the rough bark of the tree. Her breath was ragged, her chest heaving from running, but she forced herself to stay silent. Their lives depended on neither of them making a sound. Hugo’s hand found hers, his fingers catching against her knuckles, and when she glanced at him, she found his eyes in the almost-dark and held his stare. Someone had betrayed them, and now they were being hunted like animals as they hid in the forest. Her body began to shake, and she gripped Hugo’s fingers with hers as wind whipped through the trees and made the leaves tremble around them. We’re going to die. As much as she was prepared to sacrifice anything for the cause, she’d never imagined it might happen like this, and as shouts began to echo, the sound of voices coming ever closer, she couldn’t stop thinking about the other lives that would now be lost. The family they’d been waiting to evacuate, the documents sewn into her pocket that would now never be used . . . She blinked away angry tears. That family would be shoved into a cattle cart, sent on a train to certain death, when freedom had finally been within their grasp. Children ripped from the arms of their parents, lives shattered in an instant with no one left to save them. Hugo leaned in close then, his lips whispering against her ear, so close she could feel them touch her skin. ‘We have to run.’ She shook her head. ‘If we run, they find us,’ she whispered. ‘They’ll know where we are.’ ‘If we stay hidden here, they find us,’ he murmured back. ‘We have to go. This might be our only chance to escape.’ She stared at him, his eyes pleading with her as she slowly, eventually, nodded, knowing that he was right. But it didn’t make the prospect of running any less terrifying.