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.

me off Zephyr Nikos’s most

Bon was not the type of design firm Zephyr used on his

blackballing my company in circles that

I convinced him to blackball you?” Piper asked, deeply offended.

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

why haven’t

enough to say anything he could be held

thing you’ve said that makes any sense. Zephyr is a very busy man. Why would he take even a few minutes

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

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

has cost me

Zephyr simply would not

Piper’s staunch defense, but it was time to step in. “For a man in my position, it only takes a comment

expression lit up as she unfolded her crossed arms and gave him

man a once-over, not impressed with what he saw. Piper had been married to this? “I had a feeling

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

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