The Greek's Pregnant Lover

Chapter 14

He was dead serious.

“Why wouldn’t I be? Regardless of what I just said, I do not anticipate falling in love like Neo, but one day I will marry and procreate. Why build an empire if I have no intention of leaving it to someone?”

She didn’t mention his nieces and nephew. Clearly, that wasn’t what he meant. Zephyr wanted his own family. “But you don’t think you will ever fall in love?”

“No.”

That made more sense, even if it hurt enough to make it difficult to breathe.

“But…”

“But what? You loved your ex-husband, yes?”

She grimaced. “Yes.”

“And did that bring you happiness?”

“No, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think love can happen, or make me happy when it does.”

happen for you

had—with him—and his revelations on the Acropolis had

No matter how much that situation hurt her, she could not change it. She suddenly realized she was very likely to pay the price

heart was not available to her and might

distaste. “Love is a

too.” Surely he could see that, especially now that

loving Art?”

was a cheater and a liar and that

different from

was a good

you pain,” he

like it was going to be a much better prospect. At least she knew

something,

of those self-deprecating smiles he used when negotiating and it made her stomach clench to have him use it on her. “Look, I’m not trying to be the Scrooge of happily ever after, but you and I both know someone loving you

to love at all.” She tried to keep the desperation his attitude evoked out of her voice. It wasn’t his

“It works for me.”

couldn’t fault him for his attitude. Now that she knew his mother had abandoned him to build

Cassandra and vice-versa. Or so you

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