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

comes

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

so unhappy. It was the fact you found so much to love and

suddenly dry throat. Because Zephyr was exactly right. Every time she had found the place she wanted

grow up the way

more than two dozen other children in the orphanage my mother abandoned me to. That reality did not make my own situation any easier to accept when

you to the

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

but at least

were you?” she asked, after

He looked down at her

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

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

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

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

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