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

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

been blackballing my company in circles

don’t honestly believe I convinced him to blackball you?” Piper asked, deeply offended.

but a man like that wouldn’t go after me without motivation. I’m

been slandering you, why

stupid enough to say anything

Why would he take even a few minutes

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

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

smear campaign has cost me business!”

know you’re lying. Zephyr simply would not waste

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

arms and gave him a

saw. Piper had been married

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

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