So, he didn’t go into masculine panic mode. “In my world there isn’t anything just about being a true friend.”
“I understand that. All of my so-called friends dumped me when I walked out on Art. I didn’t realize they were only interested in spending time with me if I came as part of a power couple.”
“Even though he cheated on you?” Zephyr asked in disgust.
“Art wasn’t the only one who believed that hoary old refrain he was so good at spouting.”
“Which one is that?”
“All men cheat,” she clarified.
“We don’t.”
“The jury is still out on that one, but I was not about to stay married to a man who believed infidelity was as inevitable as the tide.”
“You know I think you made the right choice divorcing that louse.” At least her family had finally come around to that conclusion as well, even if her former friends had not.
of the most successful
move
The Big Apple for both his ego and my career.” She smiled
married to had done his best to blackball her in the design community. Zephyr had returned the favor over the past two years and Très Bon no longer held its prestigious top position status. Arthur Bellingham’s word might send ripples out in the city, but Zephyr Nikos sent out waves big enough to drown in
who had done his best to ruin Piper’s life was on the slippery slope of business decline already. Art would only find himself in deep,
told Piper, of course. She hadn’t been exposed to
I am glad you came to Seattle,” he
She tugged off her jacket, revealing the silky singlet she wore beneath it, and
practically choking on his lust as her hardened nipples created shoals in the slinky fabric of her
Athens’s typically snarled traffic, lest he cause an accident or do a poor job avoiding one. He could hardly do what
of the same didn’t even
to the one he was sure she meant it to. “I have
“Name one.”
“Brandi.”
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