“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.
still had not called, though he had called her on
outside the Seattle Aquarium, watching children and adults come and go. Her hand rested against her lower abdomen. She didn’t feel
unexpected fulfillment of one
told him the news, but she couldn’t. She had to think and she
had taken great pains to make sure she understood he would never love her. And that same man was going to ask her
she carried his
meeting and falling in love with Zephyr Nikos, she would never have even considered for one second marrying a man who did not profess to love her.
that clear. He had loved his mother and she had abandoned him to an orphanage. He had
love Piper, he might never be able to
She had no doubts about her ability to raise this child on her own. She was an educated woman with her own
her as well. But he couldn’t be a full-time dad if they didn’t live together. Even in the best shared custody arrangements, both parents were forced
mean he would not one day marry. He didn’t just want to be a father; he wanted a
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