The Greek's Pregnant Lover

Chapter 46

Zephyr barked out a laugh and she looked at him with a question in her eyes. “Your ex is quite the actor.”

“Oh, I think he’s every bit as despairing as he sounds and frankly, I understand why,” Piper responded.

“You feel sorry for him?” Zephyr demanded incredulously, his worry ratcheting up a notch.

“I know what it’s like to have your career ripped away by the careless words of someone else. I’d never wish that on even my worst enemy.”

“I have no problem wishing it on him,” Zephyr admitted in the spirit of complete honesty.

“Obviously.” She did not sound particularly condemning, but nor did she sound approving.

He couldn’t help morbidly wondering if their relationship was going to survive the revelation of the ruthless aspect to his nature. Though was it a revelation? She’d known his plans to fight for majority custody without him ever having to voice them.

Zephyr turned cold eyes onto the other man. “What did you hope to gain by coming here?”

Art looked like he was trying to decide how honest to be. Finally, shoulders slumped, he said, “Ideally Piper would convince you to say you’d been mistaken about my firm.”

“I do not lie.” And he sure as hell hoped she would not ask him to.

“I’d settle for you calling off the dogs.” Like he had any room to negotiate.

but the request came with an inherent error in thinking. “I have

certainly hadn’t offered favors for passing the

Everything is

how I see

going to do anything to help me?”

time Zephyr let her

I can do,”

to work

Zephyr could do not to bark out a decisive, “Hell, no,” but he respected and trusted Piper to get the point across on

wasn’t even an ounce of

it, we can open up a

even flirting with interested.” Piper was no

to do but claim bankruptcy and lay

ass. A halfway decent management consultant could pull your company out of the red with a stringent reorganization and consolidation

you

to the other man. “In future, you tell the truth about Piper’s

best I’m going to

for your reorg.” See him

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