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 again

it will.” It already had—with him—and his revelations

situation hurt her, she could not change it. She suddenly

Zephyr’s heart was not available to her and

twisted in distaste. “Love is

Surely he could see that, especially now that Neo was so happily in that

Art?”

a cheater and a liar and that his love

that different from regretting

love was

causing you pain,” he observed

Art had nearly destroyed her on every level. And loving Zephyr didn’t look like it

something, wasn’t

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 love at all.” She tried to keep the desperation his attitude evoked out of her voice. It wasn’t his fault she’d been dumb enough to

“It works for me.”

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

loves Cassandra and vice-versa.

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