“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?”

up, he would expect Neo

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

I

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

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

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

am your brother, Cass says so.

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 look at

filled with something far too

Piper deserved better than what he had

is the

in love with her next husband,”

you do not

“No.”

“Bull.”

work for everybody.” At least on that truth, he was one hundred percent convinced. And he was one

“You’re right, but giving up before you even

stupidest thing

not

a broken

something that makes me understand this defeatist attitude

“She left last night.”

so well, he did not even

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