Chapter 25
Jess sat in the pilot’s seat as the Wanderer drew away from Solcant. One part of him desperately wanted to free the prisoners in the hold, wanted to be able to give them the same freedom he and Sal now experienced.
Pitched against that was his desire to reach the Wanderer’s home system. It almost felt like an obsession, now. The Wanderer’s desire to get there had grown, and spread to Jess. The only chance they had of getting through the Quarantine Zone lay in keeping their new employers on side, and freeing the prisoners certainly wouldn’t achieve that.
Every time he thought he’d made a decision, that he’d convinced himself the prisoners should be freed or they had to be kept captive, doubts reared their head and he was back to square one.
“Jess, what’s wrong?”
Jess jum
