“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.”
the U.S.
some similar guarantee against
are getting off topic
Piper gathered her thoughts. “Why, if you trust friendship so much,
would fail utterly, but it would fail to make you happy.” And ultimately,
Would you plan to sleep
you.” Long before their discussion of love
rat, no prince, and love was not, and never would
talking about love again, aren’t
you would have considered a marriage
lip and looked away, shaking her
“As I thought.”
where does that
do not know.” If she was pregnant with his child, he would try to convince her to accept his proposal, regardless of her finer
be sorry about that. If she carried his baby, neither of
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
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