“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. “I
like he believed her. “What did
old dream of building a life with a man who loved her, and the more recently acknowledged dream
opened his mouth to say something, but before he got a chance, a masculine voice from behind them said, “You’ve
to face an
hand out.
mou, this is our architect, Jean-René
he bent over
forward to working with you. I find your work both inspiring and
you know the way to a man’s heart is
his arm around Piper’s waist. “Piper
gave them a speculative look and then met her eyes, his expression serious.
“Piper, please.”
interesting name, n’est-ce
named for one of my father’s
her. “You never told
be named after a grizzled army master sergeant
name, though, non? This master sergeant who chewed tobacco is a woman?”
nickname and
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