“I will make sure you are still pampered,” he assured her.

“What about you?”

“What about me?” he asked, not following.

“Don’t you think you could do with a bit of pampering?”

“I will avail myself of the spa services.”

“To check their quality standard, I bet.”

“So?”

“So, you’re something of a workaholic,” she clarified.

“As are you.”

“I love my business.” But she wasn’t really a workaholic. Once her business was established, she had every intention of cutting back her hours to make room for other things. “I never intended it to be everything in my life.”

“Then why do you consider the prospect of parenting the dissolution of your dreams?”

she jerked in startlement.

believed her.

old dream of building a life with a man who loved her, and the more recently acknowledged

he got a chance, a masculine voice from behind them

face an attractive

stepped forward with his hand out. “Ah, Jean-René. Good to see

“Pethi mou, this is our architect, Jean-René Tilieu. Jean-René, this is

bent over

I’m really looking forward to working with you. I find your

the way to

put his arm around Piper’s waist.

eyes, his expression

“Piper, please.”

is an interesting

my father’s mentors in the army,” she informed

down at her. “You

to be named after a grizzled army master sergeant who chewed tobacco and shot pistols with equal

This master sergeant

and

probably best,” Zephyr said, humor

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