Earthrise (Earthbound Book 3) by Aprilynne Pike

Author:Aprilynne Pike [Pike, Aprilynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imaginary Properties LLC
Published: 2015-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

“Thomas stop!” I say. I try to rush forward, but Benson holds me so tightly I’m not convinced I won’t have bruises on my upper arms tomorrow. I’ve seen Audra react to a threat; she might not be able to take Thomas in a fair fight, but she could certainly give him trouble. Whatever concerns Thomas has about Audra and Logan, the fact that they followed him into an isolated building and let him point guns at them without putting up a fight—without uttering so much as a word of protest—should tell him everything he needs to know about their loyalty.

“We had zero problems before the two of you came along,” Thomas says, and I can sense the red-hot rage bubbling just beneath the surface. “And now this. We may be alive, but there are over two hundred people who were on that plane who are now dead. So I think it’s time to figure out which one of you is our mole. And considering Logan is who he is to Tavia,” Thomas adds, his glittering eyes fixed on Audra, “my money’s on you.”

“She can’t be a spy,” I blurt.

“You really think it’s Logan?” Thomas asks, fury burning in his voice. He clearly doesn’t—to his mind, the possibility of Logan betraying me is so ridiculous that Audra must be the one. And I can’t fault his logic.

“I don’t think either of them is a traitor.” I can’t—I won’t—believe it.

“Don’t you?”

Audra’s hands are trembling. Logan looks angry, but also resigned—ready to act if necessary, but unwilling to do anything that might make him look guilty, or result in our separation.

“I don’t,” I say. “I don’t know how the Reduciata found us. But there is no way either of them would betray us on purpose and nothing you do can convince me of that. Especially not shooting her.”

“While I appreciate your loyalty to your friends, Tavia, we’re talking about the fate of the world here. If you hadn’t forgotten your bag we’d all be dead, with most of humanity soon to follow.”

My bag.

“A spy wouldn’t have gotten on that plane,” Logan says evenly.

“Spies get sacrificed for the greater good all the time,” Thomas counters.

“Maybe this is the spy.” I step forward, putting myself between Thomas and Audra, tossing my backpack to the ground. I make everything surrounding the large Ziploc bag simply melt away.

“That doesn’t make sense,” Audra says quietly.

“It’s the only thing that makes sense,” I counter.

“You really think that Daniel thought so far ahead that he put a tracker in your other-life belongings? On the off-chance that you’d find a way to steal them and escape headquarters and go on to thwart his evil plan?”

“Two days before I got away, I mentioned the artifacts to him.” I bend and pick up the bag. “It’s possible.”

But Audra shakes her head. “He was too confident that he would be able to kill you. He would have had a plan B, sure. Maybe even C, but you’re talking about, like, plan Q.”

“Doesn’t matter,” I say, my voice quavering, my eyes stinging with tears.

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