Weeping Justice by Jennifer Froelich

Author:Jennifer Froelich [Froelich, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621358466
Publisher: Clean Reads
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning I find Bess doing push-ups in the courtyard. I sit on the edge of the fountain, waiting for her to finish. Eventually I lose count and get lost in my thoughts until she jumps to her feet and sits next to me, breathing hard in between sips of water.

I nudge her with my shoulder. “You okay?”

She smiles vaguely and nudges back. “I’m just a wee bit worried about Harvey.”

“The spy in the Sand?” I don’t know much about him, except that he’s been there for more than two years, works for the UDR military, and provides the Resistance with little scraps of intelligence they must use carefully so as not to get him in trouble.

Bess nods. “He usually checks in like clockwork. I’ve been especially wanting to hear if there’s any UDR chatter about the safe house Omega Squad found in the desert. But we have’nae heard from him.”

I lean against my elbows. “Have you ever met?”

She shakes her head. “No, but I’ve come to see him as a friend. If they’ve caught him…”

“Wouldn’t we have heard? I mean, there are other spies in the Sand, right? And other operatives who work outside your network?”

Bess nods. “Yes. Dozens of rebel groups and hundreds more workin’ on their own. We’ve put out some feelers, but so far, nothin’.”

Since the first time Bess told me about Harvey, I have thought of him often, wondering what it would be like, pretending to be someone you are not while supporting a secret agenda. What lengths does he go to in order to protect his true purpose? Does he make real friends along the way, or is everything he does meant to further the cause? Does he sleep well at night, or is he constantly worrying about detection?

Of course, every time I think of Harvey, Oliver comes to mind too, and my feelings waver between anxiety and betrayal. Why didn’t he ever tell me he was a spy? Surely he knew he could trust me to keep his secret.

As long as he is under Kino’s lock and key, I will have no answers to those questions, so I shake my head and focus on Bess.

“What will happen if they discover he’s a spy?”

“Depends.” She studies her boots. “They might torture him for information or use him the way Reed’s mum was held to make him cooperate with Kino. They might put him on trial like Haak and Mariscal, or…”

“Or what?”

“They might just take him outside and shoot him in the head.”

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