“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. “I didn’t mean

look like he believed her.

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

but before he got a chance, a masculine

to face

out. “Ah, Jean-René. Good to

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

as he bent over Piper’s extended

to working with you. I find your work

you know the way to a man’s heart is

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

speculative look and then met her eyes, his expression serious. “Then I am doubly honored by

“Piper, please.”

an interesting name,

father’s mentors in the

looked down at her. “You never told me

embarrassing, to be named after a grizzled army master sergeant who chewed

name, though, non? This master sergeant who chewed tobacco is a woman?”

his nickname and I never asked how

said, humor lacing his

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