“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

didn’t look like he believed her. “What did you mean,

It would do neither of them any good to hash over her old dream

opened his mouth to say something, but before he got a chance, a masculine voice from behind

both turned to face an

out. “Ah, Jean-René. Good to see

mou, this is our

he bent over Piper’s extended hand, rather than shaking it. “An exceptional

you. I

way to a man’s heart

stepped forward and put his arm around Piper’s waist. “Piper does

then met her eyes, his expression serious. “Then I am

“Piper, please.”

interesting name, n’est-ce

my father’s mentors in the army,” she

her. “You never told me

bit embarrassing, to be named after a grizzled army master sergeant who chewed tobacco and shot pistols with

feminine name, though, non? This master sergeant who chewed tobacco is a woman?” Jean-René

and I

best,” Zephyr said, humor lacing his

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