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“Oh, a promenade? I haven’t attended one in ages. That sounds marvelous. We’ll need horse drawn carriages.” He snapped his fingers at Nigel. “Take notes.”

Nigel pulled out a notebook from behind his back and wrote down ‘horse drawn carriages.’

“No, not a promenade,” I said. “A prom.”

“Yes.Promenade. I’ve got this.”

“No, I don’t know what that is. I’m talking about like a high school prom.”

Tanner just stared at me like he’d never heard of it before.

“With dancing.”

“A promenade has forms of dancing…”

“No, like a prom.”What the hell? Why was he not getting this?I pulled out my phone and did a Google search for prom. I held it up to show him some pictures.

He adjusted his glasses and squinted at my phone. “So just like a normal dance?”

“Yes. But it’s for graduating seniors. Brooklyn and Penny both never got to attend theirs. I want to recreate it.”

“Are there even strippers?” Tanner asked.

“No, there aren’t strippers.”

“What kind of promenade doesn’t have strippers?”

When he was first talking about a promenade it sounded old-fashioned. The stripper thing just came out of left field. “Proms don’t have strippers. No sex club stuff at all.”

“None? That doesn’t even sound that fun.”

I laughed. “It’ll be fun. You attend events all the time, Tanner. Normal ones with dancing. You know what I’m asking for here. Prom.”

“I’ve honestly never heard of it. Have you, Nigel?”

“No strippers or horse drawn carriages? But there’s dancing? That doesn’t make sense, Master Matthew. There must at least be horses. And cheese plates.”

What the fuck?“No horses. Or weird cheeses. You guys, it’s just like a normal high school dance. Can you help or not?”

Nigel shrugged. “It sounds boring. But we can do it.”

“Can I at least choose the location?” Tanner asked. “I have a few venues that I think would be perfect.

I didn’t think that was a good idea, based on the fact that he was very confused about what I wanted. “Run everything by me before confirming anything.”

“But I already booked the carriages,” Nigel said.

“How? You didn’t even move.”

“I did. You just didn’t notice. We’ve been having this conversation for a while.”

“You guys have to run everything by me and James. He’s helping, since it’s for Penny’s birthday too.”

“Oh, good,” Tanner said. “Certainly he’ll know what a promenade is. I’m starting to think it’s a billionaire thing.” He slapped me on my back. “You wouldn’t understand.”

Sick burn on the fact that I only had millions. “Just promise me there won’t be tons of sex club stuff,” I said. “I want it to be classy.”

“I only ever hire classy strippers. This is going to be epic.” Tanner shook his head and his smile grew. “I can’t believe Kennedy and Felix were true love. I’m the best. I bet I can set up a few more people at our Friday promenade.”

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