Heaven Can't Wait - Chapter 58

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Chapter Fifty-Eight - Not All Hope Is Lost

Bellamy spends the rest of the day going over a growing pile of reports while trying to convince himself that Heaven is perfectly safe with Jeff who is definitely telling the truth about his repair work. He’s not doing a very good job of either, though.

The anxiety continues to fester with each new altercation he has to assess. Tensions between the Grounder and Arkadian refugees camped in the halls are growing by the minute. He’s had to leave four times to break up fights and talk to people, but nothing is helping. Lockup isn’t much of a threat when they just catch and release people because of space problems.

Reluctantly, he begins to understand the way things ran on the Ark. Floating was the only alternative, but he doesn’t want to believe they’re at that point already.

The doors have only been closed a few days for crying out loud.

“What are you doing?” Harper asks, heading for the time clock on the wall.

Bellamy startles out of his thoughts then looks blankly at the tablet in front of him. He shakes his head to clear it, but it doesn’t really help.

“Aren’t you coming to dinner?”

“Oh, right.” Clarke invited me to dinner at her place. With all of our friends. He swallows hard. “I just have to finish up some work.”

Harper quirks an eyebrow and crosses her arms, head tilted to one side. “You’ve been working all day.”

He scoffs. “I don’t think I get that luxury of not working anymore.” But he pushes the tablet to the side and locks some paper files in the desk drawer before standing and stretching.

Harper isn’t going to go away unless he agrees to go with her. She relaxes when he’s finally moving but is quiet as they pick their way through the throngs of people huddled in the halls heading to the Mess to get their evening rations.

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