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.”

it will happen for you again one

him—and his revelations on the Acropolis had

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

was not available to her and

lips twisted in distaste. “Love

but it’s good, too.” Surely he could see that, especially now that Neo was so happily in

Art?” Zephyr asked with calculated

he was a cheater and a liar and that his love was

that different from

love was a good

ended up causing you pain,”

look like it

was something, wasn’t

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

mean you shouldn’t open yourself to love at all.” She tried to keep the desperation his attitude evoked out

“It works for me.”

his mother had abandoned him to build a better life for herself,

Cassandra and vice-versa. Or

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