“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?”

the way they had both grown up, he would expect Neo

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

the only reason. I would not have considered

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

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

certainty in his friend’s voice was surprisingly

says so. That means I’m

let it show on his face. He was no pushover despite these weird emotional twinges he was experiencing. “So, step outside your personal bias and

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

say I wasn’t.” Merely that Piper

what is the

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

you do

“No.”

“Bull.”

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

but giving up before you even

stupidest thing

does not sound

sound like a broken record,”

me understand

“She left last night.”

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

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