“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?”

his interpretation of her earlier words, she jerked in startlement. “I didn’t mean

didn’t look like he believed

neither of them any good to hash over her old dream of building a life with a man who

mouth to say something, but before he got a

both turned to face an attractive

his hand out. “Ah,

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

was white-white and full of charm as he bent over Piper’s extended

forward to working with you. I find your

way to

waist. “Piper does not flatter, she always speaks the

eyes, his expression serious. “Then I am doubly

“Piper, please.”

interesting name,

named for one of my father’s mentors in the army,” she

down at her. “You never told me

after a grizzled army master sergeant who chewed tobacco and shot pistols with

though, non? This master sergeant who chewed tobacco

his nickname and I never

said, humor lacing

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