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.”

for

It already had—with him—and his revelations on the Acropolis had only

wasn’t a truth he would be pleased if she shared. No matter how much that situation hurt her, she could not change it. She suddenly realized she was very likely to pay the price for another woman’s

heart was not available to her

distaste.

it’s good, too.” Surely he could see that, especially

Art?” Zephyr asked with

a cheater and a liar and that his love was

that different from regretting loving

love was a

ended up causing you

couldn’t deny it. Loving Art had nearly destroyed her on every level. And loving Zephyr didn’t look like it was going

something,

one 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 is no guarantee they won’t

desperation his attitude evoked out

“It works for me.”

his attitude. Now that she knew his mother had abandoned him to build

and

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