“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?”

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

my point,” Neo said with exasperation. “Don’t you see that she is bound to think you are only wanting marriage because of

reason. I would not have considered it

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

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

But the belligerent certainty in his friend’s voice was surprisingly

am your brother, Cass says so.

face. He was no pushover despite these weird emotional twinges he was experiencing. “So,

here.” Neo’s eyes filled with something far too close to pity for Zephyr’s comfort. “You’re a good man,

say I wasn’t.” Merely that Piper

what is the

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

you do not

“No.”

“Bull.”

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

up before you

is the stupidest

not

a

that makes me

“She left last night.”

you wanted her to stay.” Neo knew him so well,

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