“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.
called her
abdomen. She didn’t feel any
of
news, but she couldn’t. She had to think and she couldn’t
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
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
so, but his story about his past made that clear. He had loved his mother and she had abandoned him to an orphanage. He had
he did love Piper, he might never be able to admit
questions that chased round 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 this child on her own. She was an educated
baby’s 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
be content with the role of part-time dad. Just because she refused to marry him did not mean he would not one day marry. He didn’t just want to be a father; he wanted a family.
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