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Anneliese made a valiant attempt to hide her disappointment at the interruption just when Hugh was going to kiss her. Who, in the name of God, would dare stop the ceremony?
She was about to say something when her grandfather ordered his men, “Remove him at once!”
Three burly veterans rushed toward Frank—Frank! What in God’s name was he doing there?—and roughly led him away despite his resistance and struggle to free himself.
“Anneliese!” she heard him call out from the room they had taken him to.
She lifted the hem of her wedding dress and ran down the steps and up to her grandfather. Letting go of the dress, she signed urgently, “I want five minutes with him.”
“Not a chance—”
“Lakeside,” the general said, giving him a look that said, take your wife.
“I need to tell him good-bye
