“She must be pretty persuasive.”

“She is very stubborn.”

“Like her brother, hmm?”

“Perhaps.”

Piper laughed. “There is no perhaps about it.”

“You are treading on thin ice here.”

“I like to live dangerously.” Her smile carried in the sound of her voice.

“I can tell.”

“How old was she when your sister found out about you?”

“Twelve. She was furious with her father. She called him a monster and refused to speak to him at all for an entire year after finding out about me.”

“Wow, she might even be more stubborn than you.”

“You think?” He had always enjoyed the fact that to Piper, he was just a guy she could joke with, not someone she was too in awe of to treat like a human.

have to consider

never told me about all that once I contacted them. She let me believe my mother told her of her own volition, which in a way, she had. Iola did not want me to hate our

respected the distance you maintained. It’s pretty obvious she felt you

And he had always appreciated

“Are you okay?”

and her husband wasn’t about to disconcert him. Although, maybe there hadn’t been anything simple about that phone

man, do you know that?” The warm approval in Piper’s voice washed

something to that

it even more

I

to forgive your mom and her

maintain anger and hatred when he was building a new life for himself. “I simply did not trust them to be a

“I love you, Zephyr.”

“Thank you.”

a big man to overlook the sins of the past

am glad you think so.” He liked looking heroic in her

families are all going to be

which will give them time to take in some sights before our wedding blessing on Thursday evening. We will fly over to

taking in the fact we’ll be married in just over

is what you wanted.” And what he had wanted

made

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