“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?”

grown up, he would expect Neo to be the first to

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

the only reason. I would not have

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

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

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

says so. That means I’m

didn’t let it show on his face. He was no pushover despite these weird emotional twinges he was experiencing. “So, step outside your

Neo’s eyes filled with something far too close to pity for Zephyr’s

that Piper deserved better than what he

what is the

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

you do

“No.”

“Bull.”

on that truth, he was one

sighed. “You’re right, but giving up before you even try isn’t like

the stupidest

not sound

sound like a

that makes me understand

“She left last night.”

Neo knew him so well, he did not even have to make it

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