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    Rise to the Challenge
    Rise to the Challenge
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    Rise to the Challenge

    By Keegan Kennedy

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    Former Marine, Jack Thompson is freshly divorced and owns a gym in a small Gulf Coast town. But single life isn’t always what’s it’s cracked up to be and he finds himself stuck in a rut. Jack’s employee and young protégé, Matt Flynn, who follows the older bodybuilder around like a puppy, harbors a secret crush on his boss and role model. When Matt presents Jack with an offer that he can’t refuse, the lonely straight dad has no choice but the rise to the challenge. Short story is approximately 9000 words and includes an older/younger pairing, dominance and submission and a first-time encounter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKeegan Kennedy
    Release dateMay 12, 2015
    ISBN9781311643070
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    Keegan Kennedy

    Originally hailing from Mississippi, Keegan Kennedy is a writer based out of Memphis, TN. He's a self-described, ‘aging, former sex symbol’ with a kinky imagination. Keegan is fascinated with the natural power exchanges between dominant and submissive males, and his stories reflect that fascination. The fantasies that he shares are full of adventure, peril, bondage, and a dry wit. And he has a knack for uncovering love and romance in the darkest of places. With a tendency toward the melodramatic, he does more than arouse or excite the reader - he engages them.Author of Homecoming: International Number One in four countries: The United States, The United Kingdom, Germany and Canada. Author of Homecoming: International Number One in four countries: The United States, The United Kingdom, Germany and Canada. Author of eBook Number Ones: The Substitute Wife, Magnificent Pretense, Captivated, Ganymede 4, West Texas Rivalry, Taken, The Christmas Bottom, The Party Favor, Stupid Jocks Make the Best Submissives, College Endowment, Who Wears the Pants in the Family?, Saving Drake McKenzie, Heisting Hogan, Half Past Midnight, Crossroads, and Man of the House.

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      Rise to the Challenge - Keegan Kennedy

      Rise to the Challenge

      By Keegan Kennedy

      Published by Kennedy-Empire Media

      Copyright May 2015

      Smashwords Edition

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. All characters in this story are eighteen years or older.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher or author.

      This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is coincidental.

      The opinions and comments made by the characters are not necessarily indicative of those of the author, Keegan Kennedy, the publisher, Kennedy-Empire Media or the e-Book platform from which this work was published.

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      Rise to the Challenge

      One day bleeds into another, and without realizing it—a man can find himself in a rut.

      Like clockwork, I’d opened the gym at five in the morning, and because I owned, operated and ran the place, I was going on hour seventeen…

      With the time sitting at 9:45 p.m., the end to yet another long day was coming to a close. Like every other night, over the last couple of months, my plan was to go home, scarf down some food, watch a little bad TV, get a few hours sleep and then get up and do it all again the following day. After all, there wasn’t anyone waiting for me at home—a fact for which I was most thankful…

      Back when I was twenty, I’d married my high school sweetheart, Cindy, and we’d been together for twenty-five years before our divorce six months ago. For twenty of those years, I was in The Marine Corps, where I’d spent the majority of my time in combat zones in some of the worst third-world toilets imaginable. In these shake and bake countries, my unit was constantly pitted against enemies that were so poor and uneducated that all they had to cling to was violent, fundamentalist religious beliefs. Despite being a loyal Marine and following orders, I had enough damn sense to think for myself and not let others tell me how to think.

      The Corps hadn’t been all bad. There’d been some good times, and I enjoyed the grueling physical challenges, but I’d gotten sick of suicide bombers, jungle warlords, and cowardly assholes with long beards killing folks by using children and fools to do their dirty work. So, at

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