The Greek's Pregnant Lover

“Memory” and “One” she would bet.

Someone picked up on the other end.

“Congratulate me. We are going to have a baby and Piper has agreed to marry me.” He smiled down at her while speaking into the phone.

Excited words in a definite masculine tone came through the headset, though they were too muffled to understand.

“Yes. I’ll call you with details tomorrow.”

Neo said something else.

“I will,” Zephyr replied. “Kalinichta.”

He hung up the phone.

“Neo?” she asked, just to be sure.

“Yes. He knew I was waiting for your phone call. He was concerned about me.” And even on the verge of making love to her, Zephyr thought to call his friend and settle his mind.

Maybe he’d wanted to share his news, too.

a special man, Zephyr Nikos.

us both. He and Cass will take us out tomorrow to celebrate if you

to work during the day. I’ve taken way more

will relocate to the

can continue to pay her salary once I cut back on my client list.” Piper decided to begin undressing and remind Zephyr why he’d carried her in here to begin with. “I don’t want to work anywhere near full-time

T-shirt. “I

to offer to pay her.” She paused in the act of

he was already busy trying to come up with a compelling reason for doing so, given enough

Cerulean Designs?” he asked in an obvious bid to change the

think I’ve forgotten

we were about to make love, either,

one still completely

fix that

Chapter Seven

“DO IT.”

kicked off his designer loafers with two audible thumps as they landed somewhere on the

gay romance movie when the guy planning the wedding started yelling at his fabric supplier. The wedding planner was incensed that the supplier didn’t know what cerulean was, much less how to spell it. I realized I didn’t know what cerulean was, either, and I was an interior designer. I learned later it was the same shade of blue as my eyes, which I thought was sort of prophetic. Anyway, I started laughing at the movie, really amused, for the first time in too long. I named my company Cerulean Designs to remind myself that no matter what was going on in my life, there

undressing and stared down at her. “That’s a great

good memory. It doesn’t hurt to have the everyday reminder that I don’t know all there is

of mileage for one business name.” He pulled off his unbuttoned shirt and