Her dad made a point of looking around the luxurious suite and then back at Piper. She wasn’t sure what that was supposed to signify, maybe more of the whole “what would a billionaire see in you except his baby” thing?

“I’m worried about you, baby.” Her mom gave her that look that all mothers knew and all daughters cringed from.

“Don’t be.” She could not believe this. The church ceremony was in less than forty-eight hours and her parents were pulling some kind of skewed intervention. “Zee is really good to me.”

“But is he good for you?” her dad asked in that old military officer-in-charge voice she’d dreaded since she was a child.

“Of course he is. How can you ask that?”

Her mom reached out and squeezed Piper’s shoulder. “Money isn’t everything.”

“You think I am marrying him for his money? Did you even meet him?”

“Of course we met him. You introduced us.”

you think money is the only thing Zephyr has to offer me. Or if it was, that I’d be interested. I’ve been taking care of myself for a long time. I’ve

could they not

larger than life, that’s for sure.” Her mom’s words agreed with Piper, but her tone

you mean as opposed to a husband whose career requires uprooting yourself and your children every couple of years?”

to get snippy, missy. I was serving my country and well you knew

“Well, Zephyr serves me.”

is that supposed to

lets me take care of him, too. He doesn’t play

her mother guessed in a gentle

job to rip their child’s heart out? If it was, Piper wasn’t taking that one on when this baby grew up. “Why would you say that?” she demanded

now if it was true.” The pity was still there in

them about the civil ceremony to shut them up, but she wasn’t

“You need his heart.”

“That’s my business.”

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