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.
that louse runs one of the most successful design houses in New
move to
enough in The Big Apple for both his ego
two years and Très Bon no longer held its prestigious top
his best to ruin Piper’s life was on the slippery slope of business
had never told Piper, of course. She hadn’t been exposed to
I am glad you came to
jacket, revealing the silky singlet she wore beneath it, and the fact she wasn’t wearing
now?” he asked, practically choking on his lust as her hardened nipples created shoals in the slinky fabric of
his attention back to Athens’s typically snarled traffic, lest he cause an accident or do a poor job avoiding one. He could hardly do what he was fantasizing
her in peril of the same didn’t even bear
the one he
“Name one.”
“Brandi.”
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