I perched on the edge of a worn chair, nose twitching at the dust that rose from my shifting on the worn upholstery, and tried to shake the feeling I knew this man and his partner from somewhere.
Weird how they seemed to parallel others in my life, though the fact they were a man/ woman team like Reena and Mathias wasn't lost on me. It was more so the feeling of him, of both of them, like they were people I used to know or had ties to the ones I loved most while not having any idea why I would believe that was true.
"You're wondering who we are," he smiled at me with those blue eyes I knew intimately and I realized why.
"Are we related somehow?" But how? I thought I knew all the Hayles.
"Damon." His partner settled next to him on the creaking settee, the center puffed up and losing stu
