“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?”

words, she jerked in startlement. “I didn’t

he believed her.

It would do neither of them any good to hash over her old dream of building a life with a man who loved her, and the more recently acknowledged

to say something, but before he got a chance, a masculine voice from behind them

both turned to face an attractive black

out.

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

charm as he bent over

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

way to a man’s heart

his arm around Piper’s waist. “Piper does not flatter, she

and then met her eyes, his expression

“Piper, please.”

an interesting name, n’est-ce

named for one of my father’s mentors in the

looked down at her. “You never told me

after a grizzled army master sergeant who chewed

master sergeant who chewed tobacco is a

“No, Pipes is his nickname and I never asked how he got

best,” Zephyr said, humor

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