“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

“Don’t you see that she is bound to think you are only wanting

only reason. I would not have

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

hours, Neo looked absolutely gobsmacked. “You are the

are prejudiced.” But the belligerent certainty in

brother, Cass says so.

no pushover despite these weird emotional twinges he

do not see the distinction here.” Neo’s eyes filled with something far too close to pity for Zephyr’s

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

what is

next

do not love

“No.”

“Bull.”

At least on that truth, he was one hundred percent convinced. And he was

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

trying is the stupidest thing

not sound

a

me

“She left last night.”

him so well, he did not even have

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