Chapter 10Zenon’s skin was too tight. Carlo’s hand had burned a trail on his arm where he’d touched him, and his words were on repeat in his head.
“Are we changing the course?” Anek’s tone was even.
“No.”
“You changed the course.”
Zenon glanced down at the screen. He’d changed the course. Why had he changed the course? He corrected his mistake without comment when footsteps sounded behind him.
“Zen?”
“Grace.”
“Can I have a word?” Her gaze jumped to Anek and back to him. A word?
“Which word are you wondering about?”
She flashed her teeth in a quick but non-threatening way. “It’s an expression. I’ll ask Ghurva to add it to the translation program. I was asking if we could talk, the two of us.”
Zenon looked at Anek.
Anek gave him a nod. “You can go, I’ll take over until Brox gets h
