He looked startled for a moment and then sighed. “You may be right about that. Look, I understand you having some sour grapes toward me, I really do.”

“That’s big of you.”

He frowned. “But not my company. You built a name for yourself with Très Bon.”

Seriously? He was going to use that argument about this—whatever this was. “A name that you dirtied with your rotten, not to mention untrue slurs.”

“I told you, I was smarting from our breakup. I exaggerated some things. I wasn’t myself.”

“You made stuff up with the creativity of a fiction writer.”

He grimaced. “You may have a point.”

She was so done with this conversation. “So, you’re here to apologize?”

“If that’s what it takes.”

“To do what exactly?” Piper asked, still bewildered as to what her ex was talking about.

off Zephyr Nikos’s most wanted

that matter?” Très Bon was not

my company in circles that

him to blackball you?”

like that wouldn’t go after me without motivation. I’m beneath his

he’s been slandering you, why haven’t

anything he could be

busy man. Why would he take even

Bon is on the verge

presence again. He’s a hundred times the man you are, or could even hope to be. Second, if you’re on the verge of bankruptcy, it has more to do with

smear campaign has cost me business!”

lying. Zephyr simply would not waste that much

but it was time to step in. “For a man in my position, it only takes a comment here and there,” he said as he walked around the personalized paint chip display that blocked his view of Piper and

crossed arms and gave him a bright

Piper had been married to this? “I had a feeling he’d come crying to you rather than be a man

a man?” Art asked in outrage. “I’ve never even met

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