Finding Love When You’re Not Looking by Jessica Subject

Thank you so much, Lia, for hosting me on your blog for the Sudden Breakaway blog tour!!

Today I want to tell you how I met my husband. See, the thing is, I’d met him several times before we actually went out on our first date. We weren’t friends or anything, and didn’t hang out. We had mutual friends though, and our meetings always happened by chance.

I don’t often admit this, but in the time between when I finished high school and went off to university, my friends kept trying to set me up with all kinds of guys. Most of my friends were dating someone seriously, engaged, or married. So, if you’ve even been in this situation, they believe you need to be set up with someone, too. I went along with it. Might as well meet some new people before going out to university, and have some fun.

I never went out on a “blind date” though. Every guy I met was with a group of people, so there were no awkward moments or lack of conversation. But nothing ever panned out. We were just too different.

One night, when I was supposed to meet another guy, he failed to show up. But another friend of the people I was with happened to arrive. He was flirty and nice, but nothing happened after we left. Well, I went to a party with the same friends, and he happened to be there again. We spent more time together this time, but at the end of the night, we went our separate ways with no promise of anything else.

It was the summer before I went off to University by this point and I had stopped looking for any serious relationship. Well, this guy happened to come into where I was working two weeks after I’d last seen him. He waved, and I guess I waved and flushed. Not much was said, but he phoned me that nigh and by the end of our conversation, we had set up a date for the following week. Just the two of us.

Well, I went off to university, and he completed his apprenticeship, but we’ve been together ever since that first date. I always think it’s funny because it was when I’d stopped looking, and my friends had stopped setting me up that I found my soul mate.

Madame Eve of 1Night Stand fame sets people up all the time. The participants go into the night with the expectation of having one evening of pleasure. They are not looking for a serious relationship, but thanks to Madame Eve’s magical abilities, they often find love.

Such was the case with Paige and Jared in Sudden Breakaway. They both believed they didn’t have time to commit to a serious relationship, but when they were set up with each other, they both hoped for something more.

So, tell me… Have you ever been set up on a date by a friend or family member? And what was the result?

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Sudden Breakaway

by Jessica Subject

Dressed in her black designer suit, Paige Brown recruits men and women for the Space Service. After the end of her marriage, and several failed recruiting missions, she yearns to find a way out of her lifelong contract to live a normal life. To find love again.

Jared Barnes’s life had been flipped upside down by two little kids. When his former Commander’s wife shows up to give him a reprieve, he jumps at the chance for a break, and to visit his former squad. But it is not his buddies he meets in the private suite at the Washington Capitals game, instead a woman who has been the star of all of his recent fantasies, fulfills his wildest dreams except the one that binds his heart.

Has Madame Eve made a mistake or can two lonely hearts overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles?

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~~Excerpt ~~

Jared shucked his towel and stroked his rigid cock. That woman made him hard every time she came to the door, trying to persuade him to sign up for the Space Service. Her claims had seemed far-fetched when she’d first approached him, yet his commander had confirmed her credentials, having been approached to join by another many years ago. While Jared would never add his thumbprint to the contract he’d read, he wouldn’t mind if she stopped by to try and convince him again.

Ms. Brown, with her black blazer revealing a hint of cleavage and a skirt that showed the perfect curvature of her ass. When he’d answered the door fresh out of the shower and seen her on his porch, he’d gripped the door handle to hold himself back from yanking her inside and tearing off her fine-pressed suit.

He squeezed his balls; no time to jack-off. Dylan and Madison would arrive in an hour, and he had to take one last run through his house to get rid of any lingering dust bunnies before Children’s Services appeared. No obvious dirt in the living room, he headed toward the kitchen, but his mind kept flying back to Ms. Brown.

She had the whole librarian thing going on, with her dark hair tied up in a bun and glasses resting on the end of her nose. Though, none of the women who worked at the local branch made his cock throb. Perhaps there was some truth to the naughty librarian tale. He wished.

Most women’s version of naughty did not come close to his. While the whole BDSM club scene didn’t appeal to him, he enjoyed a little bondage during foreplay. He’d spent months at a time deployed in the Middle East. While home, he appreciated the opportunity to date the pretty women who found a guy in uniform sexy. But once he fetched the cuffs, they bolted. They hadn’t even wanted to use them on him.

Ms. Brown was no girl, though. No more than a couple years his senior, she exuded experience with her seductive glances, her posture that plunged her cleavage into his line of sight, and that damn wiggle of her ass as she sashayed back to her car. She could teach him a thing or two. He yearned for the chance to find out.

No, his next lay could no longer be at the forefront of his mind. In less than an hour, he would become the father-figure to two impressionable young children. His sexual urges would have to take leave for the foreseeable future.

He’d been in his last month of deployment to Afghanistan when the call came in. And it took another day for his commander to reach him with the news. His brother-in-law had been killed in a car accident, leaving his niece and nephew orphans. And as much as he loved the Marine Corps—Semper Fi—he couldn’t let the kids be raised by strangers. They had no other family left.

So, after he returned to the States, he contacted his lawyer and spent a couple of weeks obtaining guardianship of the children. He’d received his discharge papers, found a civilian position working as a desk jockey for the CIA through his contacts with the Marines, and bought a house suitable to raise two growing youngsters. After months of preparation, they were coming to live with him.

He glanced at his watch. Ten minutes until they arrived.

Shit! He’d wasted precious time thinking about Ms. Brown and his new life.

Grabbing a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, he yanked them on. Screw the boxers; his niece and nephew wouldn’t notice. He peeked into their rooms to ensure they looked somewhat presentable. Would Children’s Services take them back to California if his new living space didn’t meet their standards?

He groaned. They weren’t even at his house yet, and he’d been distracted. No more. Nothing would come before them. The children would be his priority. Everything he did would be for them, for the rest of his life.

 

~~ About the Author ~~

Jessica Subject started writing to encourage her daughter to read. Now she writes to keep herself grounded. Although she reads many genres, she enjoys writing Science Fiction Romance the most and believes everyone in the universe deserves a happily ever after. She lives Southwestern Ontario, Canada with her husband and two kids and loves to hear from anyone who has enjoyed her stories.

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