“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?”

After the way they had both grown up, he would expect Neo to be the first to

“Don’t you see that she is bound to

I

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

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

in his friend’s

Cass 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

eyes filled with something far too close to

Merely that Piper deserved better than what he

is

be in love with her next husband,” Zephyr explained grimly.

do not love

“No.”

“Bull.”

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

but giving up

stupidest thing

does not

a broken

that makes me understand this defeatist attitude

“She left last night.”

you wanted her to stay.” Neo knew him so well, he did not even

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