“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

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

obvious she felt you had the right

he had always appreciated

“Are you okay?”

his mother 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

to that effect

even more now,”

ego, even if I do not understand why you are

lot to forgive your mom and

ago.” A man could not afford to expend the energy to maintain anger and hatred when he was building a new life for

“I love you, Zephyr.”

“Thank you.”

say it takes a big man to overlook the sins of the

think so.” He liked looking

to be

we were flexible what day of the week we would be married, it was no problem. My secretary is booking your family’s flights even as we speak. They will all arrive over the weekend, which will give them time to take in some

the fact we’ll be married in just over two

what you wanted.” And what he

you made

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