“Well, yes.”

“And you know it is something I want, too. It just feels right, Zee. Besides, no way are we cancelling our plans now. Half my family is already there and your mom is dying to see you for the first time in decades.”

“But—”

“I’m going to be fine. I promise.” Man, if he was this bad now, what was he going to be like in the delivery room?

He’d probably demand the good drugs early. Which, come to think of it, was not such a bad thing.

“You cannot promise such a thing.”

“I can. You’ll be with me, so I know I’ll be fine.”

“I do not share your confidence.”

“That’s too bad, but we are not postponing the wedding blessing until I have to waddle down the aisle with a watermelon for a belly.”

we will take a supply of soda

idea. A Valium might be a

shocked disapproval. “You cannot take a Valium. It might hurt

thinking of the

that after settling her tummy, Piper and Zephyr got ready to attend

tailored tuxedo. Zephyr stood up for Neo and one of Cass’s first musical protégées acted as her attendant. Neo had invited his housekeeper and doctor. Cass had invited her new agent and a couple of her other former

from the camera placed

intimate champagne brunch in a private room at one of Seattle’s finest restaurants. Piper drank sparkling grape juice

certain of Neo’s love that it brought tears to Piper’s eyes. Neo didn’t leave

wife’s hand in their seats side-by-side on the company jet, while they

she couldn’t even work up a

there was a difference in the way he treated her from the way Neo treated Cass, Piper could not see it. Maybe one day, that lack of love would show itself in ways that would hurt, but it wasn’t now and

“You’re pregnant, aren’t you?”

try to respond to her mother’s question immediately. It was her first time alone with her parents since meeting up at the swank hotel Zephyr’s secretary had arranged as their home base for the

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