“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?”

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

look like he believed her.

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

to say something, but before he got a chance,

face an attractive

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

back to Piper. “Pethi mou, this is our architect,

he bent over Piper’s extended hand, rather than

to working with you. I find your work

you know the way to a

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

and then met her eyes, his expression

“Piper, please.”

interesting name, n’est-ce

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

her. “You

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

master sergeant

his nickname and

said,

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