Finding You by Lydia Albano

Author:Lydia Albano
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

seventeen

“Rebellion?” several of us say at once. Des stirs.

“Have none of you heard?” Marion looks around at us. “Well, I guess that makes sense. I don’t know how much you know about Nicholas, but it all starts with him.”

“Nicholas? As in—”

“Commander Nicholas Carr. The ‘Supreme Governor of the People,’ or whatever his pamphlets are calling him today. He’s always propagated himself as a hero, the voice of the people, rubbish like that. But he’s just greedy, and it’s blinding him to the enemies he’s making. His own people are rebelling, and Alistair Swain is leading us.”

“Oh,” I breathe.

Valentina gasps. “When?”

“It’s already begun. Preparations started over a year ago.” Marion’s eyes shine with pride. She said us.…

“And you live with the rebels?”

She’s beaming again. “My father is one of their suppliers. He farms for one of the camps; there are three. It’s two days’ ride from here.”

“But who’s Alistair Swain, then? If he’s working with Curram—”

“Swain couldn’t be working with him,” Marion snaps, bristling. “Not if he knows what Curram does. He’s not like city politicians, making deals and compromising. He’s a visionary. If we tell him what’s happening, he’ll make Curram pay, I know he will.”

Phoebe glares at me. “If Curram wasn’t still alive, that wouldn’t be a problem.”

“Swain can help us,” Marion insists.

“First, I have to find someone,” I try to argue, but Phoebe cuts me off, pulling me aside.

“Can I talk to you?” she whispers, looking displeased.

“What?”

“Do you think Curram will just let us go? He’ll be awake soon. He’ll scream bloody murder, take out his anger on the servants, no doubt. Maybe he’ll shoot Robbie, who knows?” Everything she says is calm and pointed, but my heart starts to race. “For all we know, the first thing he’ll do is make another order, for more girls just like us. We haven’t solved anything yet.”

I swallow. “So I should have killed him,” I say quietly.

She nods. “You might be the first girl he’s ever lost.” She shrugs. “And you took half of his ‘shipment’ with you. You took his pride, too. I certainly hope you hurt him.” She looks at me long and hard. “Isla, that man is going to hunt us—hunt you—down. None of us are free until he’s no longer a threat.”

I feel cold, suddenly. It was my choice not to kill Curram, but with that decision, I let him go on killing other girls just like me. If I don’t stop him, am I responsible for them? A nagging voice in the back of my head says yes.

“What should we do?”

“We can hardly march back in there on our own, not like this. We should go to Marion’s rebel friends and persuade them to help us. If they’re as noble as she says, they won’t want to be in business with Curram once we expose what he’s doing. We just need to convince them that he’s as corrupt and wicked as the others they’re targeting, and they’ll do the job for us.”

I crook an eyebrow at Phoebe.

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