“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

like he believed her.

not something I want to discuss right now.” Really. Truly. It would do neither of them any good to hash over her old dream of building a

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

turned to face an

hand out. “Ah,

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

full of charm as he bent over Piper’s

to working with you. I find your work

the way to a man’s

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

eyes, his expression serious. “Then I

“Piper, please.”

is an interesting name,

of my father’s mentors in the army,”

at her. “You never

to be named after a grizzled army master

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

“No, Pipes is his nickname and I

best,” Zephyr said, humor

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