“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?”

they had both grown up, he would expect Neo to

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

reason. I would not

“Why the hell not?”

“She deserves better.”

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

in

says so. That means I’m

it show on his face. He was no pushover despite these weird emotional twinges

Neo’s eyes filled with something far too close to

Piper

what is the

in love with her next husband,” Zephyr

you do not

“No.”

“Bull.”

truth, he was one hundred

giving up before you even try

stupidest thing of all

does not sound like

like a broken record,”

makes me understand this defeatist attitude

“She left last night.”

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

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