The dancers had already worked the small crowd and no new customers had come through the door in the past hour. The men who remained kept rebuffing th... girls’ approaches, their billfolds or patience exhausted by the cloying women who were involuntarily present to serve them. Only one of the dancers present could excite them, and it was for her that they waited patiently. Most of the girls were huddled together at one table, enveloped in a cloud of cigarette smoke, gossiping in their native. “Keep your voice down!” Dan told him, not wanting everyone else to overhear their conversation, and pulled out his phone.After unlocking it, he pressed the email app, and opened the one Pete had sent him the night before, showing Hayley naked from the back at the window, with the three lads in the background. Matty couldn’t believe his eyes as he looked at the image on Dan’s phone, completely gobsmacked at the fact not only was she naked for another person to photograph, but was also exposing. It is obviously from you to me. You even included a facsimile signature. The verses inside refer to me. And my anatomy. In detail. Don’t they?’ I thought about the care I had put into that Valentine message. Ouch! I had been explicit about the parts I liked and why. ‘Uh… Yes.’ ‘Uh… Yes? You know damn well they do. You only sent it…’ She looked at the dashboard clock. ‘…eighteen minutes ago. To two hundred people who are still choking on their coffee about it.’ ‘Sorry.’ ‘Sorry? You are sorry?. .. and how exactly we are bonded?" These are logical questions," the voice replied. "We come from a nearby galaxy—" Another galaxy!" Waylon exploded. "How is that possible?" You call our point of origin the Andromeda Galaxy," the voice said, "and we did not come here voluntarily. There was a war, one that ultimately destroyed all that we knew. A great catastrophe separated us from our creators and flung us into the void between the stars."We slept for millions of years over a journey of great.