Saved by the SEAL Next Door - Military Navy Seal Romance

By Kelly Cusson

Blossom has seen more than her share of tragedy, and she's managed to survive. But she's never had much of a love life. One day, a new neighbor arrives, getting her attention. Unfortunately, on the same day he arrives, so does a bully in the park playground, harassing kids. Soon that bully is stalking her and it is a distraction from her search for a love life. 

The bully is something that the MPs, police or even her heavily armed neighbors cannot stop. Her friends are threatened, her neighbors are in danger, and she is being distracted from her possible boyfriend. She wants this to stop so she comes up with a crazy plan. It might work, or it might kill her. But she is willing to take the risk for a new love, in spite of a vicious child.

A Standalone Short Story with No Cliffhanger! 

• Language: English
• Publisher: American Military Romance Club
• Release date: Nov 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386430988

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Saved By A SEAL Next Door

Blossom Talon

Blossom Talon finished her usual five mile run around the park and slowed to a stop near the water fountain. She paced with her hands on her hips taking deep breaths and turning to catch the light breeze coming across the park.

She was wearing blue sweats that always ended up making her too warm. The reason she covered up with such loose clothes was because her neighbors found her sexier figure offensive when she wore skimpier clothes; at least according to her friend Lisa.

Navy wives are pretty conservative, Blossom, Lisa had said. They consider it lewd behavior for a widowed wife to be, uh, flaunting her body in a half top and shorts while jogging. I know, it does not make a lot of sense, but it might make it easier to get along with the neighbors if you wear your sweat suit while you jog, Lisa had told her.

True enough, after changing to sweats people had become friendlier when she was out jogging or walking from the store. They actually began talking to her and smiling. She would never understand people, they were an alien concept to her.  She had no control over her genes and how she was shaped and she did not see how trying to stay healthy was a cause for other people’s concern.

She got her breathing back and took a few sips of water from the water fountain. It was cold and just what she needed. She paced a few more times and did some cool down stretches. She wondered again about her life and what she was going to do with it. 

She was a twenty four year old widow living in a naval community outside of Annapolis Maryland. At eighteen she had married her high school sweetheart, mostly because it was expected of her. He was in the Navy and with the help of her inheritance they had bought a house. Shortly after that, he got shipped overseas to Afghanistan. He was there for a short time and was killed in an attack that took place in the Hindu Kush. So before she was nineteen years of age she was a widow.

It became worse because she was also pregnant. A month after she received news of his death, she had a miscarriage. It had been a horrendous time and she had retreated into herself to deal with it. The deaths of first her young husband and then her baby in such short succession had been a one-two punch that had almost taken her down. She pulled through though and had since been living her life rebuilding herself from the inside out.

She had recently begun to feel restless and lonely. She wanted a partner but was not sure how to go about it. Especially in this more uptight neighborhood where everyone watched everyone else because they had nothing better to do.

Blossom knew it was unfair to blame the women in the neighborhood. Most of their men were overseas and they were constantly looking for something to occupy themselves from the fact that any of them could get a visit