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.
one of the most successful design
your move
room enough in The Big Apple
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
of business decline already. Art would only find himself in deep, murky
exposed to his ruthless streak and he saw no reason to
am glad you
me, too.” She tugged off her jacket, revealing the silky singlet she wore beneath it, and the fact she wasn’t
as her hardened nipples created shoals in the
to Athens’s typically snarled traffic, lest he cause an accident or do a poor
of the same didn’t even
his leg, having the opposite effect to the one he was
“Name one.”
“Brandi.”
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