“You know he reminds me a little of Art, only different,” Piper said.

“The contractor?”

“Jean-René. He flirts. All the time, but there is no sexual heat behind it.”

“And there was with Art.”

“Yes. He accused me of being immaturely jealous, but after seeing Jean-René in action, I can say definitely that the intent behind the flirting makes all the difference.”

“Yes, Jean-René is a Frenchman. He flirts with a ninety-year-old grandmother as warmly as he would a runway model.”

Piper nodded. “It’s all about making a woman smile, without making her feel like sexual prey.”

“Art did not understand the difference?”

“How could he? Any woman even halfway attractive to him was sexual prey.” The disgust that tinged Piper’s tone was a definite improvement over the grief that used to lie so heavily on her when she talked about her ex.

flirted with intent and since he and Piper had begun their liaison, there had been no other woman he wished

laughed and hugged him, right there on the stairs.

embrace. While she never drew away from his displays of affection, she had been more circumspect in offering her own since they reached the villa. He didn’t know if that was because she blamed him for her possible pregnancy, though she’d said she didn’t. Or maybe she was responding

a pregnancy into account, or not. He’d

bedroom and closed the door behind them. “Are you ready to go back to

did not answer for several

to leave here.” He began divesting himself

want to

what she wanted to know. There was only one thing causing worry lines

pregnant. Then he could be selfish and convince her to marry him despite the lack of love between

cupped her shoulder, caressing her nape with his thumb. “I have something more interesting to focus on than

face him, her expression soft and yearning.

“Can you doubt it?”

him to kiss her, to touch her, to show her that in

exactly

back to Seattle in Zephyr’s private jet with him. When they landed, she learned that he had already made an appointment for the next morning with her doctor. She wasn’t even

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