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.

Zephyr Nikos’s

that was unexpected. “Zephyr? What has he got to do with you, or Très Bon for that matter?” Très Bon was not the type of design firm Zephyr used on his projects. They lacked the innovative

been blackballing my company in circles that have debilitating

him to blackball you?” Piper asked,

me without motivation. I’m

why

to say anything he could be held liable

man. Why would he take even a few minutes from his jam-packed schedule to besmirch

Très Bon is on the verge of bankruptcy and it’s

Zephyr Nikos in my presence again. He’s a hundred times the man you are, or could even hope to be. Second, if

campaign has cost me

simply would not waste that much time

was time to step in. “For a man in my position, it only takes a comment here and there,” he said as he

him a bright smile.

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

“I’ve never even met you, Mr. Nikos. How

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