“Have I ever lied to you?”

“No, but you said—”

“I would have begged you to stay.”

“I’m pregnant with your child.”

“A wonderful bonus to be sure, but you are the prize, Piper Nikos. I thought my emotions had been encased in stone, but your joy in life, your inner and outer beauty, your love, they are the diamond drill bits needed to break through.”

Tears slid hotly down her cheeks, but she did not rub them away. “You’re getting poetic.”

“Neo says that happens when you fall in love.”

“I can’t imagine it with him.”

“You don’t need to. I am the only Greek tycoon you need to be concerned with. Ever.”

She wanted to laugh, but her throat was too thick with her joyful tears. “You’re certainly the only man, Greek or otherwise, that I love.”

“And you are the only woman I love, have ever loved or ever will love with all my heart.” He kissed her, sealing the words between them like a vow.

When the kiss ended, he held her close, his hands caressing her like he was giving himself proof that she really was there. “I am sorry it took me so long to realize what I felt for you was love. I do not know how long it might have taken if I had not overheard your parents trying to talk you out of being with me.”

that conversation actually had something positive

stay if I had to and then subsequently

guess I can forgive them

and so

to tell

want to

kissed him softly. “But tell me again,

Over and over, until every tiny shadow in her heart was filled with the light of their

side, just as he

“Nervous?” Neo asked.

down the aisle in just

say

“Ne.”

you’d get your head out of

entrance into the sanctuary. Her mother stood and the rest of the guests—their combined families—followed suit. He knew they watched her trek up the aisle like he did, but he could not tear his gaze away

time, just a tiara and a radiant, glorious smile

he felt the rightness of it. She offered herself to him, heart,

gathered skirt with the long train on her

a princess,” Neo observed, reflecting Zephyr’s thoughts

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