The Russian Billionaire’s Secret(163)
“Well, the most important thing is to try to normalize your life once more. Do things that you used to do. Go to the movies, eat dinner at a nice restaurant, take your wife out for a date, that kind of thing.”
“Okay.”
“You are married, right Sergeant?”
“No. I haven’t been in a committed relationship since high-school.”
“Well then, I would suggest finding a young lady to take out. After all, there are few things more comforting than a woman,” Dr. Williams says, showing Robert to the door. “Same time, next Tuesday, Sgt. Steele. And I want to hear about your attempts to find a woman then, too.”
“Yes, sir,” Robert answers in a clipped, military way. “See you then,” he continues in softer tones. As he walks out of the office, Robert thinks over how long it has been since he has been with a woman. It has been at least eight months. After all, he has been out of the Army for a grand total of maybe six weeks, and his last leave was six months before his discharge.
Finally, Robert decides that maybe the doctor has a point, and resolves to go home as soon as he has finished his afternoon run, and visit that website that he heard about on the television. What was it? Dateasoldier.com? No, that wasn’t it…maybe it was militarymen.net…no, that was for veterans. So what was it?
Just then, a bus stopped right beside Robert, with the image of a Marine staring at him. He turns to look, and he sees the advertisement: “Former Military? Looking for Your Soulmate? Try SoldierMatch.com, the premier dating website for former military service people!”
Smiling to himself, Robert takes off at a brisk jog, starting on his evening run.
Chapter 3
SoldierMatch.com
Kimberly Brown sits alone in her classroom in the suburbs of Green Bay, drinking a cup of Starbucks coffee and grading papers. The beautiful young woman is only in her first year out of college, and as such is only twenty three years old. Her brunette hair stretches nearly to her waist, but he keeps it in a tight bun to keep it out of her almond shaped, green eyes. Sitting lazily on the bridge of her thin, slightly curved nose is a pair of glasses, without which she cannot see clearly those objects that are in her direct line of sight.
The final bell of the school day rings, signifying the end of another long day at Jeremiah Rusk Middle School. Kimberly is a lifelong resident of Ruskerville, except her time in college when she attended Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
After four years, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with Teacher Licensure. After graduation, she returned home to Ruskerville, where she took up this job as a history teacher in the local middle school, named for former governor of the state. Things have been rough for the tall, gorgeous young woman romantically since she started.
She initially tried to rekindle an old flame with her “high-school sweetheart,” Bailey. Unfortunately, however, Bailey decided to begin dating another woman only days after she had started talking to him again. Then, she had gone on a date with a tall mechanic that she met through a mutual friend, only to find that he was going through a divorce, and had two kids by his ex. Since that night, she has not been on a date with anyone, and is really starting to feel the keen sting of loneliness, deep in the pit of her stomach.
Because of these feelings of loneliness, Kim had finally decided to take drastic measures to fill the void in her heart. So, one night, she bought a bottle of Arbor Mist, and began searching for a dating website. Getting steadily tipsier, she had finally decided on two sites: a major, commercially successful website, and a niche website that matched former military personnel to those that desired the love of soldiers, soldiermatch.com.
Slightly buzzed from the large amount of alcohol that she had consumed, she filled out her profile on the website, promptly ignoring the site for the next three months. As she places the papers that she is grading in her briefcase, though, she decides to check it when she gets home.
She exits the school building, and drives down Jackson Street before turning left onto Morton Lane. All in all, her drive to her apartment takes less than five minutes. She goes inside, and locks the door behind her. Walking into the kitchen, she gets a bottle of wine out of her refrigerator before taking off her button down shirt and pants, and finally removing her bra, releasing her large breasts. This is her preferred attire when at home—complete nudity, save for her tight fitting panties. Sitting down to her computer, she pours herself a glass of wine, and logs on to soldiermatch.
She had decided to create the soldiermatch profile because of her great love for the military, and all who have served. Her father had been a fighter pilot in the Navy, and her brother is currently serving as a Marine at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Her grandfather had been a member of the First Recon Battalion, and was killed in action during the Korean War. All of this combined to make Kimberly very respectful of the military, and to be honest, she felt that the regimental lifestyle of the military is the only way she can live.
Sipping her wine, the nearly naked Kimberly reads through the connections that various military men (and one woman) have sent her in the last three months. “I am an airborne jump instructor at Ft. McCoy, and would like to talk to you,” one said. Another told Kimberly, “I am a National Guardsman in the 32nd Infantry Brigade, and I live in Madison, WI. I would like to start communicating with you about potentially meeting.” The woman told her that she was a recently discharged Army nurse, who was only interested in lesbian encounters. It is not that Kimberly dislikes lesbians and gays, she just wants a man.