Scarlett POV
“Dream on. I’m not letting garbage move into my apartment.”
“I’m not garbage.”
“You’re actually offended that I didn’t call you secondhand?”
I had planned to save my breath, but if my ex-husband wanted to argue, I would not stop him.
“I’ve already explained this. Being engaged to Liliana doesn’t make me ‘secondhand.’ We never slept together. Nothing happened between us. I helped her because we’d been friends since we were kids.”
Evidently, that was still not adequate.
With an unusually grave look, Jaxen straightened up.
“And all those rumors about her being my great lost love? They’re complete nonsense. She was never my ‘white moonlight.’ I don’t have one.”
There was a time when those words would have mattered.
At present, they had hardly made any impression.
I didn
