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

I such a miserable kid?” She felt like an idiot asking that. She’d been a grown-up for a long time. The

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

a suddenly dry throat. Because Zephyr was exactly right. Every

grow up

the orphanage my mother abandoned me to. That reality did

you to the

had hold of Piper’s hand, so she came with him. Feeling like the only connection he had with the present was their

least some. He just

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

five.” He looked down at her to gauge his

him. Her pretty blue eyes glazed over

utter unreality that he should be telling Piper these things assailed him. “One of her clients fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, but he didn’t want a living reminder of the life

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 heart he’d later encased in impenetrable stone, had been able to comprehend his mother’s actions, or even her husband’s

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

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