The Greek's Pregnant Lover

Chapter 12

“Your mother brought her to visit?”

“Yes.”

“That was cruel.”

He shrugged. To his way of thinking, it had been much more cruel when his mother stopped bringing Iola. Some might have thought he would be jealous of the baby, but Zephyr had adored Iola from the very beginning. He had been heartbroken when his mother’s husband had insisted Leda stop bringing his sister to visit when she was two.

But just like when he had begged to be taken with her, his mother turned deaf ears to his pleas to see the little girl he had allowed himself to love.

“I thought she was the most amazing being ever. I was in awe of her.”

“What did she think of you?”

“I don’t know. Her father did not want her to wonder about me, so my mother stopped bringing her on the visits when she was old enough to begin remembering them. My mother only brought my brother a handful of times as an infant for the same reason.”

“Clearly, they don’t want to forget you. Not if your sister insisted you meet her children.”

“I take care of them.” And even his stony heart could be moved by the little ones who called him Uncle Zee.

reason they want

“Why else?”

I’d want you in my life even if I didn’t work with you.” How could he be so unaware of his own true worth? she

“Would you?”

“Yes.”

but he appreciated the

brother-in-law work for you?” Piper

“How did you know?”

them. Does

brilliant. He’s finishing his doctoral thesis in

you’ve

“Naturally.”

far more exuberantly than he had kissed her just a moment

while it lasted, all the while wondering what in the hell was wrong with him that he had shared so

all. He couldn’t give her love and this openness was bound to give her

Chapter Three

from the Acropolis ruins. That, and the fact that visiting hours were over. He

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