Chapter 5
Todd rolled out of bed a few minutes after Nick had slipped off to the shower. He hung up his clothes from the previous night and folded Nick’s neatly on a chair near the bed. He pulled a clean pair of underwear and jogging pants on and headed into the kitchenette. Humming happily, he put on some coffee and made them a simple breakfast of toast and jam. They’d eat a proper meal later, but it was dangerous being seen together in either the employee or the slave dining hall when they weren’t supposed to know each other very well, so their meals would be separate for now, other than what Todd could fix over the cooktop in his quarters.
Nick wandered from the shower a few minutes later, stopped in the middle of the room, and sniffed the air like a gundog on a trail.
“Something wro
