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

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

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 actions. Actions that were decades old, but had not lost the power to hurt

available to her

distaste.

see that, especially now that Neo was so

don’t regret loving Art?”

he was a cheater and a liar and that his love was more words than

is that different from

was

ended up causing you

nearly destroyed her on every level. And loving Zephyr didn’t look like it was going to be a much better prospect. At least she knew where

something,

clench to have him use it on her. “Look, I’m not trying to be the Scrooge of happily ever after, but you and

shouldn’t open yourself 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.”

that she knew his mother had abandoned

loves Cassandra and vice-versa. Or so you

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