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

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

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

still. “Lots of kids grow up the

more than two dozen other children in the orphanage my mother abandoned me

you

so she 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

all, but at least some. He just

were you?” she asked, after several moments

almost five.” He looked down at her to gauge his tenderhearted lover’s

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

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 she’d led before

short life, the one he had relied on entirely for acceptance and love, he

to the small boy the few times they met before he decided to buy

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