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

or Très Bon for that matter?” Très Bon was not the type of design firm Zephyr used on his projects. They lacked the innovative approach he

in circles that have debilitating

you?” Piper asked,

wouldn’t go after me without motivation.

why haven’t you

would be stupid enough to say anything he could be

Why would he take

on the

my 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

has cost me business!”

know you’re lying. Zephyr 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 walked around the

she unfolded her crossed arms and gave him a bright smile. “Hi, Zee.

Piper had been married to this? “I had a feeling he’d come

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

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