“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

look like he believed her. “What did you mean,

discuss right now.” Really. Truly. It would do neither of them any good to hash over her old dream of building a life with a

he got a chance, a masculine voice from behind them said,

turned to face an

his hand out. “Ah,

is our

charm as he bent over Piper’s

to working with you. I

know the way to a man’s heart is

Piper’s waist.

gave them a speculative look and then met her eyes, his expression serious. “Then

“Piper, please.”

interesting name, n’est-ce

named for one of my father’s mentors in

at her. “You never told me

after a grizzled army master sergeant who chewed tobacco and shot pistols with equal

non? This master sergeant

nickname and

probably best,” Zephyr said, humor

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