The Forbidden Prescription (ePub)

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This story is about Jacob Matthews, a former college football player and Navy Seal, turned successful billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. Tragedy strikes when his wife of twenty plus years is in a coma after an auto accident. His stepdaughter, Chloe, recognizes the need for Jacob to snap out of his self-imposed emotional exile. She has come to terms with the inevitability of her mother's deteriorating condition. She wants Jacob to do the same. She and her two brothers, Jacob's stepsons, depend on the success of the family business. She proposes an unorthodox plan to get him back in the game and leading the expansion of the business after the pandemic. Jacob secretly seeks validation that Chloe's plan will work, and not leave him looking like a cold-hearted womanizer. Jacob moves to Houston as part of the overall expansion plans for this business. Consultations with his new company's doctor, and a behavioral psychologist, lead to a revelation about his suppressed feelings of fatherhood and his struggles with a savior complex that has been lurking just under the surface since before he and the kids' mother married years before.

Hannah is a thirty-two-year-old escort in Houston, TX. Her untreated autism was the reason she was laughed at and ridiculed in high school, which she still considers to be the best years of her life. She has used sex since her early teenage years to gain acceptance and love, neither of which have stayed. The only relationships she has maintained are "friends with benefit," In nature. something simply to pass the time. She has long since declared herself to be polyamorous. But is this really a vailed attempt to justify the only profession she is even remotely successful at. She still lives with her mother, who raised her as a single mom since birth. Life has not been fair to Hannah, but this doesn't deter her from seeking the dream life with a loving husband and children. She has cocooned herself in a world of Disney movies, cats, and friends that are just as qualified for the "band of misfits" as she is. She survives because she has figured out that lesser men will pay for a pretty face and her time, without clothes. She is every client's best new girl, as she hopes. She is beginning to realize her career, as she calls it, has a shelf life, with an expiration based upon her looks. In reality, her personal struggles with autism have caused countless missed dates with clients, and other stupid mistakes. Her business, as she refers to it, is a victim of her own uncontrolled struggles with organization and personal accountability. She secretly hopes that her prince charming will show up via the cashapp portal, sweep her off her feet, and they will live happily ever after.

Jacob's first attempt at using an escort fails miserably. After finding her ad on a local website, Jacob enlists Hannah's professional services to help him get his dating "Mojo" back. His long-suppressed savior complex and an unfulfilled mating strategy leave his judgment clouded. He is unable to resist Hannah.

She immediately falls for him, purely based upon his immediate generosity and flawless execution of the three P's – Profess his love, Protect her, & Provide for her.

She wants to be queen so bad. He hands her the authority to be the queen prematurely. Some things she is great at, others she is not.

Their worlds collide, This is where the adventure begins....