“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.”

out, “not the U.S. The Fifth Amendment does not

the Greek constitution has some similar guarantee against

getting

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

would fail utterly, but it would fail to make

plan to

give you fidelity.” 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 other night, he had known she was still waiting for her fairy-tale ending complete

was a former street rat, no prince, and love was not, and never would

love again, aren’t

Can you honestly say you would have

bit her lip and looked away,

“As I thought.”

where does

she was pregnant with his child, he would try

be sorry about that. If she carried his baby, neither of their dreams took precedence. They

would never allow 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

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.

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