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?”

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

my point,” Neo said with exasperation. “Don’t you see that she is bound to think you

I would not

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

than twenty-four hours, Neo looked absolutely gobsmacked. “You

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

says so.

felt warmth he hadn’t known in decades, but he didn’t let it show on his face. He was no pushover despite these weird emotional twinges he was experiencing. “So, step outside your personal bias and

not see the distinction here.” Neo’s eyes filled with something far too close to pity for Zephyr’s comfort. “You’re a good

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

is the

to be in love with her next

you do not

“No.”

“Bull.”

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

but giving up before you

is the stupidest thing of

not sound

sound like a broken record,”

something that makes me understand this defeatist attitude of

“She left last night.”

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