“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.
had called her on
sat outside the Seattle Aquarium, watching children and adults come and go. 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.
wholly unexpected fulfillment of one of her
him the news, but she couldn’t. She
to make sure she understood he would never love her. And that same man was going to ask her
she carried
Before meeting and falling in love with Zephyr Nikos, she would never
nothing but pain. He hadn’t come out and said so, but his story about his past made that clear. He had loved his mother and she had abandoned him to an orphanage. He
love Piper, he might never be able
and round in her brain was whether or not she could accept that and marry him anyway. She had no doubts about her ability to raise
life without marrying her as well. But he couldn’t be a full-time dad if they didn’t live together. Even in the best shared custody
the role of part-time dad. Just because she refused to marry him did not mean he would not
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