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Piper nodded, tears in her eyes “Three months to raise three million Holy crack-a-doodle”

Simms cocked his head at her “If anyone can do it, Michael Shuttle’s daughter can”

Piper didn’t bother explaining that, while she carried Mick’s DNA, she’d been anything but his daughter

But she was Gail’s daughter and Ty’s mom, and she had a life she loved, a life now under threat Piper looked around her colorful, cozy home, and her stomach twisted into a sailor’s knot This was her nest, the center of her life It was her refuge, her cave, her son’s playpen It here she felt safe

Leaving her house and her life wasn’t an option, so she had to fight for it, and that ainst her flat stos to work

Fighting for her life and her hooing back to see Jaeger, the only man who’d ever tempted her to walk on the wild side It didn’t matter that she was still furious that he’d refused to see her, still hurt that she was so easily forgotten She needed him

Daer

Only, she quickly qualified, to buy her sapphires so she could save her and Ty’s hoer to be her lover or Ty’s dad or even to rehash the past and explain his actions

It was a siive her a considerable amount of money

It would be swift and simple

With her rising stress levels, she didn’t think she could cope with anything but swift and simple