“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?”

her earlier words, she jerked in startlement.

like he believed her. “What

her old dream of building a life with a man

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

turned to face

out. “Ah, Jean-René. Good to

is our

smile was white-white and full of charm as he bent over Piper’s extended hand, rather than shaking it. “An exceptional pleasure,

I’m really looking forward to working with you.

the way to a man’s

his arm around Piper’s waist.

look and then met her eyes, his

“Piper, please.”

an interesting

for one of my father’s mentors

her.

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

though, non? This master sergeant who

and

said, humor lacing his

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