“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

me believe my mother told her of her own volition, which in a way, she had. Iola did not

felt you had the right to set the terms

And he had

“Are you okay?”

simple conversation with his mother and her husband wasn’t about to disconcert him. Although, maybe there hadn’t been anything simple

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

said something to that

I mean it even more now,” she assured

even if I do not understand

lot to forgive your mom and

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

“I love you, Zephyr.”

“Thank you.”

it takes a big man to overlook the sins of the

you think so.” He liked looking heroic in

families are all going to be there. Tell

They will all arrive over the weekend, which will give them time to take in

taking in the fact we’ll be married

you wanted.” And what

made it

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