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were several new email messages sent to him by Nicole the wedding planner. Each
one of them showed purchases that Tanya had requested that Nicole make for the
wedding.
    Austin blinked several times as he stared at the
astronomical bills. She’d paid more than 40,000 for a floral arrangement. and
almost 65,000 for some kind of artisan silverware.
    What the fuck! His mind was made up. There was no way that
he was going through with this wedding. He didn’t love Tanya. Never had. And it
was very unlikely that she loved him. The whole thing was such a farce.
    He hopped out of bed and paced around his room. It was a
tough decision. But it was one that he had to make.
    He called the wedding planner and let her know that the
whole charade was being called off. There was a long silence as Austin waited
for her to respond.
    Even though the wedding was canceled, the bachelor party was
still held at a discrete Las Vegas strip club. Normally, Austin loved taking
those sorts of trips with his friends. It was a chance to bond away from the
field and the practice facility, a chance to just be regular guys.
    But during this trip, he was clearly out of it.
    “You're single again,” Brian, a big, burly offense lineman
said. “Just like I predicted.
    He burst out laughing and so did the other three guys
sitting at the table. Lights swirled around them. Waitresses in skimpy ass
showing shorts, tight titty popping tops, sauntered around providing bottle
service. Leggy blondes with big boobs and tattoos worked their way up, then
slid down golden poles.
    “Some of the guys thought that you would go through with
it,” Brian said. “Sometimes it's too easy to take people's money.”
    Austin raised his head and stared directly at the big, bear
of a man.
    “What?” He said, a look at confusing confusion etched on his
face.
    What Brian told him nearly made his head explode. A few the
guys on the team had bet about whether or not he would be able to go to through
with the marriage to Tanya. Brian was the only one that had been able to see
the sham engagement. He ended up winning around $40,000.
    “That's fucked up,” Austin said. “If you weren’t already so
ugly I would consider bashing your face in.”
    Brian chuckled and put his arm around Austin's shoulder.
    “It was just a friendly wager,” Bryant said. “No offense
meant.”
    “Is that so?” Brian asked.
    “Yes, it is. And to prove I’m going to give you a chance to
win some money from me.”
    “How much?” Austin asked.
    “Hold on a second. Let me tell you what I want you to do
first.”
    While Austin listened, he closed his eyes and shook his
head. This was so ridiculous! Brian wanted him to travel across the country,
track down the cute wedding planner, somewhere in NYC and carry on a two-month
relationship with her.
    “Are you serious?” Brian asked.
    Brian smiled and nodded his head up and down.
    “How much?”
    “80,000.”
    Austin looked out of the coffee shop window on to the busy
East Village Street. Everything was such a blur to him. He had only rolled into
town a few days ago and he knew that it would probably take him a while to get
acclimatized to this place. He had come from all the way across the country.
Sometimes long trips would help he refocus. He definitely needed that right
now. So many mixed emotions swirled in his head.
    He’d spent part of his life in Colorado and the rest in
Texas. He had the wild western spirit. And that’s what people loved about him.
But it certainly wasn’t the only thing. And no matter what town he found
himself in or what town he was being run out of, either by the police or
jealous husbands and boyfriends, there was always a woman for Austin Daniels.
He had the kind of swagger that made women melt.
     He was the bad boy that so many women dream about. But this
guy was the real thing and you could tell by the cold gleam in his beautiful
green eyes. He had a chiseled, masculine jaw that always had a few days