“You and Cass have already discussed it?” Zephyr asked, taking his turn at being taken aback.

“We’ve discussed many options for the future. Cassandra wants to experience other parts of the world and I want her to have every opportunity for maximum happiness,” Neo said with a shrug.

Now, that did not surprise him. With more trepidation than he had felt since leaving Greece for the unknown, Zephyr shifted his gaze to Piper to see how she was taking this discussion.

Her azure eyes were fixed on him with steady intensity. “You’re going to pull out all the stops if that test comes back positive, aren’t you?”

“Would you expect anything different?” He was ruthless, but not dishonest.

“I guess not. I was trying very hard not to think about it at all, though.” Her voice was tinged with rueful inevitability.

He did not know if that was good, or bad. “I am sorry.”

“For showing your hand early?”

“For making you think about it.”

“What exactly is it we’re thinking about?” Neo asked in a voice others had learned not to ignore.

Luckily for Zephyr, he wasn’t other people and he had no trouble ignoring his best friend and business partner’s demand.

with every evidence of counting to ten and he thought she’d probably

sighed. “Besides, it’s obvious and not something Piper should be forced to discuss before she’s certain one

other, what?”

at least a decade, probably longer.

for

enough to allow the

line and Piper did her best to

when they left Neo’s penthouse. Instead,

her shoulder as she pressed the button. “Where

looked back at him. “I

mother left him in the orphanage and never took him

“Are you sure? You

at all.” Unfortunately, she looked like the thing she needed most right then

snuggled against him, damn

did not agree. She did not want or

for you not to be

her head, a sad look passing over her face.

had learned even better than how to make money and at

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