“I don’t think I got the memo.” She gave a pale version of her usual teasing smile, but at least she was no longer on the verge of tears.

He hoped. “We agreed this morning.”

“That was not agreement, that was you saying it did no good.”

“I am right.”

“You have what can be an annoying tendency to think you are.” But she nuzzled his neck and he was not too worried.

“What can I say? I usually am.”

She pulled back and gave him a gloating glare. “Ah, so you admit to at least some small level of infallibility.”

“Naturally.”

“You’re so darn arrogant.” She shook her head in bemusement. “Why do I find that charming again?”

“You tell me.”

“I plead the Fifth.”

Greece,” Zephyr pointed out, “not the

some similar guarantee against having to testify against

getting

you trust friendship so

say I believed a marriage between us would fail utterly, but it would fail to make you happy.” And ultimately, that had decided him against

you plan to sleep around

something you’ve made clear is of equal importance to you.” Long before their discussion of love at dinner the other night,

former street rat, no prince, and love was

love again,

Can you honestly say you would have considered a marriage proposal without

away, shaking her

“As I thought.”

where does that

pregnant with his child, he would try to convince her to

would show itself and he could not even be sorry about that. If she carried his baby, neither of their dreams took precedence. They would do what was best

child of his to be anything but absolutely certain of its place in his life. Unlike both his mother and father, Zephyr Nikos would consider his role as parent the most important one he would ever

a father, but he and Neo had self-educated themselves in business and that had been an eminently successful endeavor. With the same work and dedication, he could learn how to be a dad as well. Unlike when he was a teenager, he did not have to rely on used books, and firsthand

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