Very few developers could make that claim, and none as successful as Stamos & Nikos Enterprises.

“Neo and I learned early to see the good in wherever we were.” He laced their fingers together, giving her a look that implied he wasn’t just talking about property development.

“Even the orphanage?” she asked softly.

“I admit I saw more good there than Neo did.”

“I’m not surprised.”

He shrugged.

“That’s a pretty nice talent to have. I wish I’d had it as a child like you did.” She might have found moving around as much as her family had done easier than she had. “Heck, I wouldn’t mind having it now.”

“Don’t play down your strengths. That was one of the first characteristics I admired in you.”

“Seriously?”

“Definitely. When you look at a property, you do not see what is, but what could be.”

not the

but it comes from the same

grown-up for a long time. The little girl that found changing homes and

that made you so unhappy. It was the fact you found so much to love and enjoy in each new place and that got ripped from

swallowed after developeing a suddenly dry throat. Because Zephyr was exactly right. Every time she had found the place she wanted to occupy in her new

grow up the way I

children in the orphanage my mother abandoned me to. That reality

abandoned you to the

he had with the present was their entwined fingers, he could not believe he had shared that information with Piper. He’d never even talked about

all, but at least some. He just didn’t understand

old were you?” she asked, after several

five.” He looked down at her to gauge his

glazed over in shock. “I thought you were a baby, or

“One of her clients fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, but he didn’t want a living reminder

man, he could almost understand that. Not forgive, but understand. As a child who had adored his mother, the only bright constant in his short life, the one he had relied on entirely for acceptance and love, he hadn’t been so wise. Neither his child’s mind, nor the

kind enough to the small boy the few times they met before he decided to buy Leda’s freedom from

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