“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.”

are in Greece,” Zephyr pointed out, “not the

has some similar guarantee against having to testify against themselves

are getting off

her thoughts. “Why, if you trust friendship so much, do you think a marriage based on it

did not say I believed a marriage between us would fail utterly, but it would fail to

Would you plan

doubts. “However, I could not give you something you’ve made clear is of equal importance to you.” Long before their discussion of love at dinner the other night, he had

prince, and love was not, and never would be,

about love again,

say you would have considered

lip and looked away, shaking her head

“As I thought.”

does

child, he would try to convince her

sorry about that. If she carried his baby, neither of their dreams took precedence. They would do what was best for

his to be anything but absolutely certain of its place in his life. Unlike both his mother

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

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