“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?”

the way they had both grown up, he would expect Neo to be

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

is the only reason. I would not have

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

second time in less than twenty-four hours, Neo looked absolutely

belligerent certainty in

brother, Cass says so. That means I’m

show on his face. He was no pushover

see the distinction here.” Neo’s eyes filled with something far too close to pity for Zephyr’s

say I wasn’t.” Merely that Piper

what is the

next husband,” Zephyr explained grimly. “Like she was

do not

“No.”

“Bull.”

work for everybody.” At least on that truth, he

but giving up

trying is the stupidest thing of all

does not sound like

you sound like a

something that makes me understand this defeatist attitude

“She left last night.”

him so well, he did not even have

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