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Whoa! Alrighty, that’s enough now

Piper tapped the tip of her finger against her bottom lip He should have been the last ine; he was a coe But froer had the ability to short-circuit her brain

She wasn’t the carefree woh She had responsibilities now This wasn’t about her and what she wanted—hot, curl-her-toes and burn-her-sheets sex

So stop i him naked and think!

He had an ironclad good excuse for not contacting her after Milan, and his explanation went soer and hurt she’d lived with for so long But did it funda?

Piper couldn’t see that it did

She still needed to sell her sapphires to save her house and provide the stable, calm environment she needed to raise Ty Her life before Si a career She loved living in this house; she paid the bills; she had people she trusted with Ty

She needed to keep doing that

Should she tell Jaeger about Ty?

Not noas her gut instinct She needed to tackle one proble her house was her priority, and she didn’t want the negotiations around her stones clouded by any eht experience after hearing she was the mother of his son

Unlike her ownfor the father of her child to discover his daddy-and-husband instincts

“I’m sorry about your hassles with security, but they had no way of knowing you were trying to sellsapphires”