“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?”

she jerked in startlement.

he believed her. “What did you mean,

Truly. It would do neither of them any good to hash over her old dream of building a life with a man who loved

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

turned to face an

hand out. “Ah, Jean-René. Good to see

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

as he bent over Piper’s extended hand, rather than shaking

to working with you. I

the way to a

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

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

“Piper, please.”

an interesting

of my father’s mentors

down at her. “You

be named after a grizzled army master sergeant who chewed tobacco

a feminine name, though, non? This master

his nickname and I never asked how

probably best,” Zephyr said, humor

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