“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.”

in Greece,” Zephyr pointed out, “not the U.S. The Fifth Amendment does not

some similar guarantee against having to testify against themselves for

getting off topic

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

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

plan to

Of that, he had no 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

street rat, no prince, and love was

about love again,

honestly say you would have considered

her lip and looked away, shaking

“As I thought.”

does that

was pregnant with his child, he would try

he could not even be sorry about that. If she carried his baby, neither of their dreams took precedence. They

a 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

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

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