“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?”

interpretation of her earlier words, she jerked in startlement. “I didn’t

didn’t look like he believed her. “What did you mean,

something I want to discuss right now.” Really. Truly. It would do neither of them any good to hash over her old dream of

he got a chance, a masculine voice from behind them said, “You’ve arrived.

face

out.

our architect, Jean-René Tilieu. Jean-René, this is Piper

as he bent over

looking forward to working with you. I find your work both inspiring and

the way to a

around Piper’s waist. “Piper does not flatter,

and then met her eyes, his

“Piper, please.”

interesting name,

for one of my father’s mentors in

her. “You never told

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

though, non? This master sergeant

and I never asked

probably best,” Zephyr said, humor lacing

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