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.”

will happen for you

him—and his revelations on the Acropolis

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

was not available

lips twisted in distaste. “Love is

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

Art?” Zephyr asked with

a cheater and a liar

different from

was

you pain,” he

on every level. And loving Zephyr didn’t look like it was going to be a much better

was something,

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

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

“It works for me.”

mother had abandoned him to build

loves Cassandra and vice-versa. Or

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