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.”

offer me. Or if it was, that I’d be interested. I’ve been taking care of myself for a long time. I’ve built a successful business after having my career trashed. I haven’t gone through a string of loser boyfriends since Art. There’s just been Zephyr and he’s the most amazing man I’ve

they

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

requires uprooting yourself and your children every couple of years?” Who was her mother to question Piper’s choices based on that

blustery. “There’s no reason to get snippy, missy. I was serving my

“Well, Zephyr serves me.”

the hell is that supposed to mean?”

me happy.” Wasn’t that obvious? It was to her. “He takes care of me, but he lets me take care of him, too. He doesn’t play lord of the manor with

doesn’t love you,” her mother guessed in a gentle

that one on when this baby grew up. “Why would

You would have by now if it was true.” The pity was still there in her mom’s grey

need anyone’s pity. She’d chosen this marriage and she didn’t regret it. She almost told them about the civil ceremony to shut them up, but she wasn’t sure even that would do it. “I have what I need

“You need his heart.”

“That’s my business.”

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