“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

and go. Her hand rested against her lower abdomen. She didn’t feel any different.

wholly unexpected fulfillment of one of her dearest

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

would never love her. And that same man was going to ask her

carried his

her part. Before 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

his past made that clear. He had loved his mother and she had abandoned him to an orphanage. He had loved

did love Piper, he might never be able

whether or not she could accept that and marry him anyway. She had no doubts about her ability to raise this child on her own. She was an

of the baby’s life without marrying her as well. But he couldn’t be a full-time dad if they didn’t live together. Even

not one

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