Zephyr shuddered. “So, you are not taking the contract.”

“Doing so would have made it impossible to do this property. I wasn’t willing to give up a chance at decorating a specialty resort in paradise for re-creating my first design in a series of cookie-cutter office buildings.”

One of the things she and Art had disagreed on, besides the whole issue of marital fidelity, was her need to create, not merely re-create. For Art, the bottom line was always money. While Piper craved security, she needed the chance to stretch her artistic muscles just as much.

“I’m glad.”

She smiled. “Good.”

“I’m equally pleased you are here with me now.” For a man like Zephyr, that was quite an admission.

It deserved rewarding, at the very least reciprocating honesty. Emotion she was doing her best to suppress colored her single-word answer. “Ditto.”

He made a sexy sound, very much like a growl, before pulling her to him for a scorching kiss. Finally.

missed him; she’d missed this so much. Being touched. Being held. She’d gotten very spoiled to seeing

resistance. She adored his lovemaking, but she

from the way his lips moved against hers,

his thighs, her skirt rucked up around her hips. The mattress was

brain focused on the only thing that mattered right now, the sensation of

telling her silently that they had all the time in the world. He was the only

their lips sliding apart in a natural movement.

missed sex

going without,” she whispered, the

so relaxed.

He gave her gentle baby kisses all over face and neck between words. “Even if you had been in Seattle, I would barely have

implied he hadn’t been with anyone else,

something to that effect, but she’d thought he was just trying to make

known better. For all his apparent affability, Zephyr Nikos was an almost brutally honest man. He’d warned her early in their association that he didn’t do “sensitive” and he hoped she could handle candor, even when it meant criticism. He’d been referring to their work association, but she’d gotten the impression he was that

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