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your earnings as well as theirs. You
don’t fool me with this attack on my conscience. I don’t believe you. You have
a hidden agenda and I just haven’t figured it out yet. I don’t trust you. Can’t
really blame me, can you?”
    “I have apologized for the past. I’ve offered
reconciliation. It was you who got the divorce, Cooper, not me.” She adjusted
her coat and glared beneath false lashes.
    “Yes, and it’s you who got the kids. Tell you what,
you go to your attorney tomorrow and draw up a new custody agreement. Give me
full custody of Tina and Tucker and I’ll cancel my guest spot on Kari’s show.”
    “You bastard! Think you’ve got all the winning cards
in your hand? Well you don’t.” She took several steps back, struggling with the
temptation to agree with Cooper’s offer. She hated the responsibility of the
twins. She never wanted them in the first place, but they were a great pawn to
get back at Coop. If he appeared on the Winslow show, he could destroy her and
upcoming revenues.
    “I’m holding the winning hand and you know it. You
willing to gamble with me?”
    Megan remained motionless while staring Cooper down.
She gave his girlfriend a quick glance. The bitch hung on their every word. His
eyes spoke of contempt and disgust. Megan didn’t really care who he slept with.
Losing everything wasn’t in her cards, though.
    “If I … I will see James Airhart first thing in the
morning. I’ll have him give you a call.” She opened the door and walked through
it, her heart pounding. She turned and glared at the man she still loved. “I
wish there was another way of stopping you, Cooper.” She gripped her jacket
tight. “Someday the twins will find out how you tricked them from me.”
    “They have names, Megan. Tina and Tucker will know the
truth, and you can be sure they won’t feel tricked by anyone but you. Have
Airhart call me by nine so I can cancel the interview.”
    “What if I can’t get ahold of him before that? Lawyers
are busy people.”
    “You’ll find a way. You always know how to get what
you want.”
    “Maybe I should pray you have an accident on your way
to the interview.”
    “I doubt you know how to pray.”
    Megan turned and slammed the door behind her. She
stood staring at it, frustrated and furious. Where had the plan gone wrong? Oh,
the girlfriend. Damn, a girlfriend? Really? The night couldn’t have gone worse.
Megan stomped her foot and headed down the long hallway. All she’d accomplished
tonight was allowing Cooper to negotiate the one trump card she had from under
her. He’d regret this night. Paybacks were a bitch.

 

 
 
    CHAPTER SIX

 
 
    “My, isn’t she a breath of fresh air?” Dallas asked, staring at
the door.
    “Sometimes I wonder what I ever saw in her.” He
studied the sparkling green eyes and wondered how he could feel more
comfortable with this stranger than he did with a woman he’d been married to
for four years. “She had her moments,” he added, sliding a shoe back on Dallas’s foot. “Sorry you
had to witness it.”
    “She always that … abrupt?”
    “I think she was rather charming just now. She’s
usually such a bitch.” Dallas’s
laughter pulled him into joining her.
    “I’d say you handled her very well, Coop?”
      “It’s Cooper.
Megan called me Coop and most of the time it sounded like a dirty word. Coming
from a woman, it just sets me off. I’m sorry, Megan has a way of putting me in
a foul mood.”
    “No apology needed, Cooper.” She slid her legs to the
floor and slipped the other shoe on. “You weren’t really going to appear on
Winslow’s show, were you?”
    “To be honest, I never agreed to be a guest on that
show. I don’t want anything distracting or screwing up this case. The killer
wants attention and my being on TV is the kind of exposure a nut case like this
wants. Miss Winslow had no right to announce I’d be there tomorrow. She thought
I wouldn’t have the cojones to say no