The Girl Who Dared to Think 6: The Girl Who Dared to Endure by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight
Published: 2018-03-21T18:30:00+00:00

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The talk with the others went pretty well, although I didn’t tell them about my plan to stay. I wasn’t ready to talk about it, and a part of me wondered if it would just be manipulative. I wanted them to stay for their own reasons, and I didn’t want my decision to influence them one way or another. I also asked Zoe to keep it to herself before we left the room to grab breakfast with the others, and she had agreed. She warned me that she might spill the beans when Eric woke up, but swore up and down it would be to him and him only. I didn’t like it, but what could I do?

I was nervous when I explained to them that I wanted us to start searching through Sadie’s files to see if we could find every single legacy and accomplice she and her people had worked with, as well as evidence of the changes they had made to Scipio, in order to build a case against them to present to the council. It was a bold plan, one that I couldn’t accomplish without them, and even though my argument was sound, they still had every right to refuse me.

Understandably, Maddox had wanted to know why, and I told her the truth: I couldn’t leave without doing something to stop them. I couldn’t abandon the Tower without devoting every last moment I had to trying to make things better. Everyone had been surprisingly understanding, especially after Zoe mentioned the fact that the Patrians might not be able to help us. There was every chance that they would refuse to grant us refugee status, and if we spent a week simply waiting for them to refuse us, then that was a week our enemies could use to get to us or cause further damage to Scipio. We couldn’t allow them to get the drop on us just because we thought we were getting out.

Things got a little more complicated when Quess revealed that he still hadn’t broken the encryptions on her files.

“How long is it going to take?” I asked, finally sitting down in a vacant chair at the table. My knees were still a bit wobbly from the conversation, but now, at least, I could sit. Everyone was on board with helping.

“I don’t know,” Quess replied tiredly. He ran a hand over his face and sighed heavily. “It would move faster if I could get some assistance.” He shot a pointed look at Leo as he said that.

I followed his gaze, and my breath caught in my throat. Leo looked like crap. There were dark shadows under his eyes, and his hair was mussed and unkempt. He hadn’t even shaved, and his cheeks were roughened with the beginnings of a beard. Even his uniform was wrinkled, which told me he had probably slept in it. Or tried to.

A part of me felt a savage satisfaction that he looked so rough. Clearly, he wasn’t as unaffected

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