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

it comes from the same

asking that. She’d been a grown-up for a long time. The little girl that found changing homes and schools every couple of years so

you to 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

Athens, she swallowed after developeing a suddenly dry throat. Because Zephyr was exactly right. Every time she

of kids grow up the way I

that does it. There were more than two dozen other children in the orphanage my mother abandoned me to. That reality

mother abandoned you

came with him. Feeling like the only connection 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 it to Neo. Yet, he knew he was going to tell Piper the truth

not all, but at least some.

old were you?” she asked, after several moments of somber quiet between

at her to

pretty blue eyes glazed over in shock. “I

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

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 heart he’d later

man had been kind enough to the small boy the few times they met before he decided to

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