“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?”

can ask?” After the way they had both grown up, he would expect Neo to be the first

said with exasperation. “Don’t you see that she is bound to think

the only reason. I would not have considered it

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

in less than twenty-four hours, Neo looked absolutely

in his

am your brother, Cass says so. That

show on his face. He was no pushover despite these

eyes filled with something far too close to pity for Zephyr’s comfort. “You’re a

wasn’t.” Merely that Piper deserved better than

what is the

to be in love with her next husband,” Zephyr explained grimly. “Like she

do

“No.”

“Bull.”

that truth, he was one hundred percent

but giving up before you even try

stupidest thing of all to

not sound

a broken record,” Zephyr

something that makes me understand this defeatist

“She left last night.”

wanted her to stay.” Neo knew him so well, he did not even have to

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