“You do? Other than making money, I wasn’t aware.”

“Right. You are probably the only person in the world besides Neo that knows that for the lie it is.” They both made their orders and then he gave her a significant look. “You are one of those obsessions.”

“You’re turning into quite the silver-tongued devil, you know that?”

“I have always been good with my mouth.”

“That can certainly be taken more than one way.”

“You should know.”

She felt herself blushing, despite their history together. Nevertheless, she agreed. “I do.”

The young barista cleared his throat. With a blush darker than hers burning on his cheeks, he handed Zephyr their drinks.

Zephyr pulled his car back out onto the road. “You are not my only interest, however.”

“My feelings might be hurt if you hadn’t downgraded whatever you’re going to try to talk me into from an obsession, which I am, to an interest.”

“I like fish.”

“I had noticed.” Her blue eyes queried where he was going with this. “You eat it more often than either steak or chicken.”

to eat.

want to go whale watching?”

aquarium.” That was so not what she

go the Seattle Aquarium…but

“I don’t think so.”

“Seriously…you’ve been?”

“Several times.”

Wow…just wow. “No way.”

go when I need a place to think. Watching the

with all

to see

of the statistical probability after her years on the birth control patch. Therefore, he needed to convince

past with her as a brilliant tactical move on his part. Piper needed

would give Piper a stronger

share with others. It wasn’t much, but his instincts told him that sharing this habit with her would work toward convincing her they could

A lot more, but what she found most intriguing was watching the way Zephyr watched the other people there. She was sure he had no idea just how much his expression revealed of the inner man. His mouth would tilt in a half smile every time a child made an

with pure longing

asked him in the glassed-in tunnel

them with a wistful expression that was there and gone in a blink. “Everyone here has normal

“You assume.”

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