“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.

to consider

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

maintained. It’s pretty obvious she felt you had the right to set the terms

And he had always appreciated

“Are you okay?”

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

do you know that?”

to

even more now,” she assured

are good for my ego, even if I do not understand why you

to forgive your mom and her

man could 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.”

I still say it takes a big man to overlook

He liked looking heroic in

families are all going to be there. Tell me you

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

married in just over two

And what he had wanted for

made it

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