“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?”

of her earlier words, she jerked in

look like he believed her. “What did you

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

to say something, but before he got a chance, a masculine

turned to face an attractive

out.

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

was white-white and full of charm as he bent over

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

the way to a

forward and put his arm around Piper’s waist. “Piper does not flatter,

met her eyes, his expression serious. “Then I am

“Piper, please.”

an interesting name,

one of my father’s

at her. “You never

a grizzled army

feminine name, though, non? This master sergeant who chewed tobacco is

Pipes is his nickname and I

said, humor lacing his

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