“I had a lover once, too. You actually remind me of him a little… When I first saw you, I thought…” He became silent, perhaps he had said too much. He looked broken suddenly. Had he hurt him or lost him? “I saw the same innocence in your eyes. It made me think of him.”
That explained a lot. I tried not to think too much about how he’d only chosen me because of a reminder of a broken heart from someone he missed.
“What happened to him?” I was curious. Who was this person that distracted him and took him away from me? It made me a bit jealous to have him long for him when he was here with me.
He hesitated. I thought that he would not talk about it, that he didn’t want to. “It’s complicated… It made things hard between us…” He thought for a moment. He appeared to be holding back. I felt ba
