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telling me how much you’re like your dad. Maybe it’s time to prove it.”

Chapter 6
    Maya carefully stepped out of the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, making sure that her skirt didn’t ride up too high as she reached for the curb. The line to get into 360 went all the way down the block and every head turned to see who was getting out of the luxury SUV. Maya felt like she was disappointing them by failing to provide a genuine star sighting.
    Diego slipped out from the backseat. He let out a long, low whistle when he saw the line. “We are never getting in tonight.”
    â€œIt’s okay,” Maya said. “Travis is probably on some list. We’ll be fine.”
    Maya sounded like she knew what she was talking about, but the truth was she’d only been to one other hot spot since moving to Florida. This experience was almost as foreign to her as Diego’s homeland had been.
    They waited on the sidewalk while Travis gave detailed instructions to the valet about the proper way to park theSUV. He wasn’t normally so specific, but it wasn’t exactly his car he was about to hand over to a total stranger.
    Travis’s Mercedes Roadster was only a two-seater. The three of them had quickly realized that they would need an alternative mode of transportation after they slipped out of the formal reception unnoticed. Since Maya was carless and Diego’s limo had gone off duty, that only left one of the rides in Nails Reed’s small fleet of vehicles. Quietly slipping out of the garage in a car stolen from his dad’s collection was Travis’s second act of rebellion that night.
    When Maya turned her attention back to the club, she was surprised to see the bouncer holding the velvet rope open for her. “Good evening, Ms. Hart. Welcome to 360.”
    Maya looked down at the rope, then up at the bouncer. “Excuse me?”
    â€œMs. Ledecq is already inside,” he said. “She made sure you were on the list.”
    â€œTh-thank you.” Maya stepped across the invisible line separating her from the riffraff waiting on the sidewalk. It wasn’t the first time she’d gotten past a velvet rope before, but on the previous occasion she’d had Nicole King by her side.
    â€œImpressive, Maya,” Diego said as he followed. “You do know how to show off for the new guy.”
    They waited in the doorway beneath the neon 360 sign for Travis to catch up. “I figured there was a chance Renee put us on the list,” Maya said. “But I didn’t have to tell him who I was. He
recognized
me.”
    Diego smiled. “Of course he did. You’re news. I was reading about you all the way in Rio over the weekend.”
    â€œBut … I didn’t even win.” The fact that Maya had made news wasn’t news to her. She’d seen the articles herself. She just didn’t think anyone else had.
    â€œWhy are you hanging out in the doorway?” Travis asked when he finally caught up to them.
    â€œMaya wanted to make sure you could get in,” Diego joked. “Since we’re clearly not celebrities like her.”
    â€œSpeak for yourself.” Travis took Maya’s arm. “I’m the son of Nails Reed, football hero. That makes me famous by association…. Able to get into clubs across this nation … so long as the owners remember my dad.”
    Maya laughed along with Diego even though she thought that she’d heard an unusual touch of bitterness beneath the joke. She expected that type of attitude from a different Reed brother, not Travis. Brushing it aside as a figment of her imagination, Maya walked through the doorway and into an entirely different world.
    The club was thumping. Music pounded out of the speakers and lights danced along to the pulsing beat. Bodies filled every inch of the floor. Most were moving to the rhythm, but a few were completely out of step and didn’t seem to care at all.
    Maya made