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 one

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

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

heart was not available to her and might never

twisted in distaste. “Love is a

he could see that,

don’t regret loving Art?” Zephyr asked with calculated

he was a cheater and a liar and

different from

was a good

ended up causing you

level. And loving Zephyr didn’t look like it was going to

was something, wasn’t

it on her. “Look, I’m not trying to be the Scrooge of happily ever after, but you and I both know someone loving

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

“It works for me.”

she couldn’t fault him for his attitude. Now that she knew his mother had abandoned him to

loves Cassandra and vice-versa. Or

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