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.”

the

it comes from the same

grown-up for a long time. The little girl

wasn’t an inability to find the good in each new situation that your father’s military career led 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

Because Zephyr was exactly right. Every time she had found the place she wanted to occupy in her new world, she had been ripped

grow up the way

children in the orphanage my mother abandoned me to. That reality did not make my own situation any easier

mother abandoned you

hand, so she came with him. Feeling like the only connection he had with the present was their entwined

least some. He just didn’t

she asked, after several

down at her to gauge his tenderhearted

him. Her pretty blue eyes glazed over in shock. “I

be telling Piper these things assailed him. “One of her clients fell in love with her and wanted

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

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

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