“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.

ten and he

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

way, or the other,

but it had been at least a decade, probably longer. He had no idea how

what’s for dinner?”

knew enough to allow the subject change to pass without

went well, considering. Cass kept Neo in line and Piper did her best to ignore any and all

turn toward his door when they left Neo’s penthouse. Instead, she headed for

his hand on her shoulder as

him. “I need

mother left him in the orphanage and never took him home

so, he asked, “Are you sure? You

she looked like the thing she needed most right then was a good night’s

his bed, snuggled against

agree. She did not want or need him right then. Maybe

for you not

her head, a sad look passing over her face.

on leaving you did no good. That was a lesson he had learned even better than how to make money and at a much younger age. But it still took an

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