“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 the hour, every
abdomen. She didn’t feel any different. Her body had not changed
wholly unexpected fulfillment of
should have called right away and told him the news, but she couldn’t. She
taken 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 was
she carried
in love with Zephyr Nikos, she would never
that clear. He had
did love Piper, he might
him anyway. She had no doubts about
full-time dad if they didn’t live together. Even in the best shared custody arrangements,
him did not mean he would not one day marry. He didn’t just want to be a father; he wanted a family. That had been
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