“If you say so.”

“What I say does not matter. On the other hand, what you and Piper say is of utmost importance.”

“She said she would call, and she has not,” Zephyr all but growled.

“Be patient and believe in your friendship if you will believe in nothing else.”

“I have no other option.”

“Then make it work for you, that is what men like us do. We do not give up.”

That was one truth Zephyr could not deny.

Neo left and Zephyr forced himself to get to work on the piles of urgent papers and messages stacked on top of his desk from his time out of the office. It was nine o’clock that night before he admitted temporary defeat and left his office.

though he had called her on the hour, every hour, since

Her hand rested against her lower abdomen. She didn’t feel any different. Her body had not changed at all, but inside her womb a baby grew. Her baby. Zephyr’s baby. Their

wholly unexpected fulfillment of one

couldn’t. She had to think and she couldn’t do that around him right

great pains to make sure she understood he would never love her. And that same man was going to ask her to marry him. She

carried his

in love with Zephyr Nikos, she would never have even considered for one second marrying a man who did not profess to love her. But Zephyr’s perspective was a unique

past made that clear. He had loved

if he did love Piper, he might never be able to

doubts about her ability to raise this child on her own. She was an

her as well. But he couldn’t be a full-time dad if they didn’t live together. Even in the best shared custody

he would not one day marry. He didn’t just want to be a

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