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things.
    “We are going to have a honeymoon, Riley. Make no mistake about it. When we come back to this room, I’m going to lay you across that bed and come inside that sweet body of yours until we both pass out from exhaustion. Got it?” He punctuated his question with a hard, quick kiss that took her breath away.
    When he stepped away, he’d turned back into her affable, easygoing friend once more. “Come on. Let’s go find Trev.”
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    Riley and Aaron took a quick cruise through the slot machines in the hotel, hoping they’d get lucky and run in to Trevor.
    “You realize finding Trev in Vegas is going to be harder than finding an all-you-can-eat buffet for under twenty bucks,” Riley grumbled.
    “I know. Hey, there’s the dealer from your blackjack table last night. Let’s talk to him.”
    “I played blackjack?”
    Aaron chuckled. “You were winning too.”
    “Oh yeah? Awesome.”
    They approached the dealer and Aaron noticed the man recognized Riley right away. “Welcome back, Riley. Did you come to try your luck again?”
    Riley shook her head, undaunted that the man knew her name. Riley was infamous for making friends everywhere she went, but Aaron was going to have a serious talk with her about her partying habits of late. Typically she knew how to have a good time and what her limits were. This weekend binge of hers drove home to him how depressed she must have been lately. She wasn’t usually quite so reckless.
    “No. Actually I’m looking for Trevor, the guy I was with yesterday.”
    “Ah, Bella’s date,” the dealer said.
    She nodded. “Have you seen them lately?”
    The man shook his head. “Not since last night. Your friend hit the jackpot on the Money Madness machine. After that, he and Bella took off.”
    “He hit the jackpot?” Riley asked.
    “One hundred grand.”
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    “Shut. Up. Trevor won a hundred thousand dollars? That lucky bastard.” Riley shook her head in disbelief.
    Aaron shrugged, unsurprised. Money always seemed to fall into Trev’s lap. He’d matched four numbers in the lottery once, found five hundred dollars in a coffee can on the street, and inherited a few thousand from an uncle he didn’t even know he had.
    Problem was, the money never stayed in Trev’s pocket for long. “He does seem to be doing pretty well for himself in Vegas.”
    The dealer obviously agreed. “I’ll say. Winning all that money and spending the evening with Bella.” The man’s look let them know exactly which part of Trev’s good fortune he preferred.
    Aaron chuckled as Riley rolled her eyes. “It’s a big-tit epidemic,” she muttered.
    “Thanks for your help.” Aaron led Riley back toward the front desk of the hotel, where they introduced themselves and asked about the staff working the previous night’s shift. The reservation clerk said the same crew would be working that night.
    Riley and Aaron decided if they still hadn’t found Trev by then, they would come back to question them all later.
    Aaron took her hand and led her away from the desk. “So it sounds like Trevor and Bella won a bunch of money and split.”
    “Knowing Trev, he decided this hotel was beneath him once he got a few bucks in his pocket.”
    “Probably,” Aaron agreed. “Bella certainly looked like the type who wouldn’t mind helping a fella blow all his hard-earned money.”
    “So the only words I heard in that comment were Bella, blow and hard,” Riley joked.
    “Touché.”
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    Riley’s cell phone went off, the sounds of Brick House surrounding them. He chuckled at her ring tone as she pulled the phone out of her purse and looked at the caller ID.
    She sighed. “Shit.”
    “Who is it?”
    “Tris.” She continued to let the phone ring.
    “Aren’t you going to answer it?”
    She shook her head. The phone stopped ringing and she began to count backward.
    “Five, four, three, two, one.” As she hit one, the phone started ringing