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

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

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 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 or mold

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in distaste. “Love is a messy

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

loving Art?” Zephyr asked with

I regret that he was a cheater and a liar and that his love was more words

that different from

was

up causing you pain,” he

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

something,

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

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

“It works for me.”

attitude. Now that she knew his mother had abandoned him

loves Cassandra and

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