Quandary (noun): a puzzling situation or dilemma

He’d accepted all of it—pleas, threats, heaps of gift boxes overflowing with jewels… From the tempting bribes and the death threats in case he refused, it was clear that he had no choice but to accept. He was scared.

The only thing was… he accepted the offer from both warring countries.

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For months, he’d pretended to hack into each country’s database, even though he was granted confidential access for being their spy, anyway. He reported information truthfully to both presidents—he didn’t anger either side, did he? After all, he got them the enemy battle plans that they wanted, albeit he did leak their own.

But the war wasn’t progressing. If anything, it only got more bloody as each side brought out the most lethal of weapons, thinking simultaneously that they were ambushing the other side.

People were dying. His reputation as a spy was failing. And he, who was so deathly afraid of offending either side… knew that he’d infuriated them both. But what could he do? He was scared.