Chapter 38
Finally, it was done! Jess managed a tired smile. He’d spent the past hour worrying that the troopers would decide to move. If they’d been lucky they could have found one of the gaps in the barriers the Wanderer had been creating. Now they were surrounded. Wherever they headed to next they were in for a nasty surprise.
He knew the troopers would begin to move as soon as the Wanderer entered jump space. Even the thought of doing so was too much for his exhausted mind. Everyone else was still sleeping, or in the bedrooms at least. Jess decided it would be safe to wait for twenty minutes more before jumping.
He couldn’t sleep, or wouldn’t at least, in case the troopers tried something unexpected or the pursuing fleet somehow caught up with the Wanderer much sooner than h
