“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

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

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

And he had

“Are you okay?”

wasn’t about to disconcert him. Although, maybe there hadn’t been

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

said something to

it even

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

to forgive your mom and her

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

“I love you, Zephyr.”

“Thank you.”

man to overlook the sins of

you think so.” He liked looking heroic

our families are all going to be there. Tell

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

still having trouble taking in the fact we’ll be married in just over two weeks. In Greece, just

what he had wanted

made it

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