“You knew we were friends.”

“Not that good of friends.” Neo shook his head. “She’s the reason you told me sex with a friend was so good, isn’t she?”

“Yes.”

“Have you been with anyone else sexually since you began your relationship with Piper?”

“Do you really think that is any of your business?”

“Probably not, but answer anyway,” Neo insisted.

“Once, before I realized the first time wasn’t going to be a single shot.”

“And that did not tell you anything?”

“What? I like intimacy with Piper. I am too busy with our company to expend energy on other women.”

Neo’s lips twisted in a mocking frown. “How long has your head been in the dark place?”

Zephyr remembered accusing Neo of having his head up his ass once, in regard to Cass. Apparently this was payback. “It’s not. We both knew what we had and what we did not have.”

“And now?”

“And now she may be pregnant with my child.”

“So, that changes everything?” Neo asked.

“Naturally.”

“Why?”

After the way they had both grown up,

taking my point,” Neo said with exasperation. “Don’t you see that

reason. I would not have considered it

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

than twenty-four hours, Neo looked absolutely gobsmacked.

in his friend’s

Cass says so. That means

felt warmth he hadn’t known in decades, but he didn’t let it show on his face. He was no pushover despite

the distinction here.” Neo’s eyes filled with something far

say I wasn’t.” Merely that Piper deserved better than what

is the

with her next husband,” Zephyr explained grimly.

you do

“No.”

“Bull.”

At least on that truth, he was one hundred

giving up before you even try

the stupidest thing of all

does not sound

sound like a

something that makes me understand

“She left last night.”

him so well, he did not even have to make it

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