“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.”
Zephyr pointed out, “not the U.S. The
constitution has some similar guarantee against having
are getting off topic
thoughts. “Why, if you trust friendship so
believed a marriage between us would fail utterly, but it would fail to make you happy.” And ultimately, that had decided
you plan to sleep around
you.” Long before their discussion of love at dinner the other night,
prince, and love
about love again,
you honestly say you would
bit her lip and looked away, shaking her head once in
“As I thought.”
does that leave
pregnant with his child, he would try to convince her to accept his proposal, regardless of her finer
his inner ruthlessness 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 for their
life. Unlike both his mother and father, Zephyr Nikos
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
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