“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,

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

the only reason. I would not have considered it

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

than twenty-four hours,

in his friend’s voice was surprisingly

your brother, Cass says

his face. He was no pushover despite these weird

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

not say I wasn’t.” Merely that Piper deserved better than what he had to

is the

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

you do

“No.”

“Bull.”

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

but giving up before you even

is the stupidest

not sound

you sound like a broken record,”

makes me

“She left last night.”

well,

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