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right?”
    He nodded. “I own a few. I invest. I buy and sell things.” Truthfully, he did a lot of different things. He was nicely diversified. It helped not only his bottom line but his tendency to get bored easily.
    “Tony,” Reese said, her tone very serious.
    He dropped his hand and focused on her. “Yes?”
    “When you offered me a million dollars earlier to recreate this night for you, were you serious? You could really give me a million dollars?”
    He frowned, that same feeling of needing to tread carefully coming over him. But it was a straightforward question. “Yes.”
    “And you really did spend a million dollars on a mug Mickey Mantle drank from? Like you just wrote a check for it?”
    “Yes.”
    She blew out a breath. “Who are you?”
    A cab pulled up behind her and Tony signaled for the driver to wait. “What do you mean? I’m really Tony Steele. I can show you my driver’s license, credit report, whatever you need.”
    “Are you secretly a celebrity or something?”
    He laughed. “No.”
    She frowned. “Well…what’s your company’s name?”
    “T.S. Enterprises.”
    She stared at him. “T.S. Enterprises?”
    “T.S. Tony Steele,” he said. “Why?” His company was an investor in many businesses and behind many well-known companies and endeavors, but T.S. Enterprises itself wasn’t a household name.
    Reese swallowed, seeming stunned. “Tony, I’m Reese Chaplin.”
    “I know.” Well, he did now . He hadn’t known until she’d told him that Sutherland was her stepfather’s name.
    “That doesn’t…ring any bells for you?” she asked.
    Crap. Should it? Apparently, it should, judging by the look on her face. He racked his brain, but nothing came up. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. Have we met before the club?” It was possible, he supposed. He met lots of people all the time at charity fundraisers and board meetings of new companies and social gatherings. But it was hard for him to imagine having met Reese and not being as affected as he had been the first time at her stepfather’s club.
    She frowned slightly. “Actually, no. We’d never met before that night in Kyle’s club.” She looked over at the cab and then back to him. “We should go.”
    Tony followed her to the cab, feeling relieved. Whether they had met or knew each other’s names before tonight didn’t matter. They were together now. They were married . Whatever had happened in the past was in the past. He was a new man.
    “How many times did I propose before you said yes?” he asked as he helped Reese into the back of the cab.
    “Three.”
    “You know I’m not going to be able to repeat them word for word.”
    “I can’t wait to hear what you come up with tonight,” Reese said. “We’ll see how close you get to what you said last night.”
    Huh. Tony wondered if he was more romantic when he was drunk off his ass…or less.

Chapter Four
    What had she really expected?
    Reese was rolling her eyes and kicking herself at the same time. Her spontaneous trip to Vegas and drunken, impromptu wedding to her ex-fiancé’s best man hadn’t turned out well? Imagine that.
    Tony joined her in the back of the cab and gave the driver an address she didn’t recognize. Of course, the night before he had done the same thing, but she hadn’t paid attention. She had been too distracted by the fact that he was running his hand up her leg and that she’d always had a back-of-a-cab fantasy.
    But finding out she was married to Tony Steele had definitely distracted her.
    Well, not that she was married to Tony Steele. She’d known that. But she hadn’t known that Tony Steele was also the CEO of T.S. Enterprises. She’d done her homework. Or she’d thought she had. The CEO’s name was…
    “T.S. Enterprises’ CEO’s name is Anthony,” she said, turning to Tony.
    He was already watching her. “Yes. Tony is short for Anthony.”
    “But…” Dammit.
    “Did you know the CEO’s last name was Steele?”
    She nodded.