“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.”

“not the

has some similar guarantee against having

getting off

Piper gathered her thoughts. “Why, if you trust friendship so

it would fail

you plan to sleep

importance to you.” Long before their discussion of love at dinner the other night, he had known she was still waiting

no prince, and love was not, and never would be,

talking about love again,

you honestly say you would have

looked away, shaking

“As I thought.”

does

with his child, he would try

show itself and he could not even be sorry about that. If she carried his

be anything but absolutely certain of its place in his life. Unlike both his mother and father, Zephyr Nikos would consider his role

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

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