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    What Happened In Vegas?
    What Happened In Vegas?
    What Happened In Vegas?
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    What Happened In Vegas?

    By Erik Schubach

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    In this short novella, Olivia flies to Las Vegas on a business trip with her fiancé. And in one day everything in her life goes to hell. After a night of drinking to forget, Olivia wakes up the next morning in her hotel room to find a wedding band on her finger and the person in her bed not who she was expecting.

    In the twelve weeks that follow, while trying to rebuild her life plans, Olivia learns things about herself and who she wants to be. The biggest lesson? Love can come in surprising packages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErik Schubach
    Release dateFeb 13, 2018
    ISBN9780463416129
    What Happened In Vegas?
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    Erik Schubach

    I got my start writing romance novels by accident. I have always been drawn to strong female characters in books, like Honor Harrington. And I also believe that there is a lack of LGBT characters in media. So one day I came up with a story idea that combines the two... two days later I completed the manuscript for Music of the Soul.My writing style may not be the most professional nor grammatically correct, but I never profess to be an English major, just a person that wants to share a story. I maintain that my primary language is sarcasm.Each of my books features strong likeable female characters that are flawed. I think that flaws and emotional or physical scars make us human and give us more character than simply conforming to some "social norm".I have also started a SciFi series, The Valkyrie Chronicles which features a Valkyrie, Kara, who was left behind on Earth five thousand years ago to help the Asgard race escape the onslaught of the Ragnarok horde. With the aid of a human, Kate, she holds the line in battle to herald the return of the Asgard!If you like magic, paranormal romance and witches, then my new series Fracture might tickle your fancy. In the first book Fracture: Divergence, Alex King must stop magic from destroying reality. The problem is that Alex must solve the case in parallel universes where in one Alex is male and female in the other.There is even a modern shapeshifter paranormal series, Drakon. Featuring a fiery Irish woman with a sharp wit and sharper temper who finds out she is a dragon of legend.

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      What Happened In Vegas? - Erik Schubach

      Prologue

      Dave? David, come on, the flight leaves in three hours, and we'll need half of that to stand in line while TSA security invades what little privacy we pretend to still have in the US.

      Where was that man? He knew this was possibly the most important day of my life. I really should have gone a day early to curtail any unforeseen hurdles like this.

      I love the man with all my heart, but this? His disregard for punctuality and schedules and any sort of organization or professionalism, just pushed that love at times. I yelled down the hall as I stood by the door of our apartment with my meticulously packed carry-on bag at my side, Dave!

      Ah who am I kidding, that man was my miracle. Anyone who could put up with... how had my first boyfriend, Brian, put it? With my 'effing anal retentive control freak-ness'? Well anyone who could put up with that and still want to marry a woman who had her ten-year plan written down to the minute seven years ago, was a God damn diamond.

      I still couldn't believe it when he had asked me to marry him last week. I had to look around for the hidden cameras, sure I was on some sort of reality prank show on TV. I spent the following two days, rewriting, and including... marriage into my plan. I moved a few things around, but I was sure I would still make vice president of Baker and Sands Technology Consultants in three years like I had planned. Even sooner if I landed this contact in Las Vegas.

      This was the contract that was either going to make or break our company as we had invested so much up front to assure that Simon Securities would select us to set up their IT department on a global scale. It was a forty million dollar gamble that would cripple us if it didn't pan out, as we have invested over three million in infrastructure to support Simon Securities unique requirements already.

      We only had one shot at this.

      I was selected to close the deal as I had been the one to put in all the legwork to outmaneuver our rival, Eagle Tech, for this face to face. Our bid was five percent higher than Eagle, but they were more impressed by our record, attention to detail, and the professionalism of our contact with them. Guess being a little anal retentive can be a good thing, huh Brian?

      Dave called out as he started down the hall with the big Gucci suitcase I got him on his birthday, Don't get your panties in a twist, Olivia. It doesn't take that long to get through security, love.

      His winning smile made my cheeks heat, but I found myself asking, Checked luggage, really, honey?

      Maybe this is why I loved the man so much, he liked to live dangerously and made me feel like a rebel at times like this when he cocked his eyebrow with that charming humor of his. I grinned at him and said, Fine, but I'm driving. We need the Fast and the Furious right now, not driving Miss Daisy. You own a 370Z, Dave, act like it. I had given him the car for Christmas, using most of my bonus check for landing the Landis account. There were times I thought he might love that car more than me... until he showed me in bed that I was mistaken – so suck it you little red sports car.

      He held his keys away from me, shot me that knee-weakening seductive smile of his, and leaned in to kiss my cheek. His sexy mop of shoulder length honey blonde curls tickling my skin. How did a gorgeous man like this even put up with me?

      He whispered, No, love, nobody drives Shakira.

      No

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