Sal stared after Jess and Ali, a hollow feeling in her chest. For a moment everything had been good. Realising they were really going to cross the Quarantine Zone, and just how crazy an idea that was, had given everyone a buzz. Then Jess and Ali had ruined it.
They could have stayed. They could have kept the feeling going for longer. But no, they hadn’t. Instead, they had rushed off. No doubt to discuss how little they trusted her and Roberto, to make plans to get rid of them as soon as possible. A spike of fear shot through Sal. Could they be planning to dump her and Roberto as they crossed the Quarantine Zone? To throw them to the Empire? A few days before she would have sworn Jess would never do something like that to anyone, let alone her. Now she wasn’t so sure.
Could sh
