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

with you, or Très Bon for that matter?” Très Bon was not the

company in circles that have

him to blackball you?” Piper asked, deeply offended. “You know me better

go after me without motivation. I’m beneath his notice.”

been slandering you, why haven’t you filed

would be stupid enough to say anything

thing you’ve said that makes any sense. Zephyr is a very busy man. Why would he take even a few minutes from his jam-packed schedule to besmirch your

I know is that Très Bon is on the verge of bankruptcy and it’s all that

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 the way you run your business on the edge of overextension and

has cost me

lying. Zephyr simply would not waste

in my position, it only takes a comment here and there,” he said as he walked around the personalized paint

up as she unfolded her crossed arms and gave him

in Seattle.” He gave the other man a once-over, not impressed with what he saw. Piper had been married to this? “I had a feeling he’d come crying to you rather than be a man

“I’ve never even met you, Mr.

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