The Greek's Pregnant Lover

“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, he would expect Neo to be the first

point,” Neo said with exasperation. “Don’t you see that she is bound to think you are only wanting marriage because of the

I

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

time in less than twenty-four hours, Neo looked absolutely gobsmacked. “You are the

prejudiced.” But the belligerent certainty in his friend’s voice was surprisingly

Cass says so. That means

no pushover despite these weird emotional twinges he was experiencing.

do not see the distinction here.” Neo’s eyes filled with something far too close to pity for Zephyr’s

not say I wasn’t.” Merely that Piper deserved

what is

be in love with her next husband,” Zephyr

you do not

“No.”

“Bull.”

head. “Love doesn’t work for everybody.” At least on that truth, he was one hundred

right, but giving up before you even try

trying is the stupidest thing of

does not sound like

like a broken record,”

something that makes me understand this defeatist

“She left last night.”

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