Zach, the Captain by Anna Joung

Emily:
Well, now I’ve done it.
All of my recklessness has finally caught up with me and my parents have got it in their heads that the only way to get me to settle down is to arrange it themselves.
They’ve set me up on a date, a fricking date! Of course, my parents are expecting this date to go spectacularly, that I am going to have to lie my ass off just so they’d get off my back.
I wish I was having this date with that handsome guy with piercing grey eyes that my brother brought to the party. Yes, he had a bad asshole attitude, but at least I’d have an excuse if it wouldn’t go so well.
Ugh, I can’t believe this! I am an event coordinator, and I can’t even plan my own love life. I just want to be able to have fun and go at my own pace without anybody telling me what to do!

Zach:
Being a captain in the Army has been drilled into me so deep, it makes it kind of hard for me to take a backseat about everything else in life.
Coming back home to hear my little brother was getting set up for a date—with the girl I got so fixated on at the party, no less- was a downright kick to the gut.
Now, I was torn between letting her be or snatching her away for myself.
I know, she didn’t seem particularly impressed with me at that time, but I’m willing to bet anything that I was able to change her mind.
I’ve flipped the bird at destiny so many times during missions, defied expectations and came out of even more complicated shit than this alive that I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the universe’s way of screwing me right back.
Well, maybe this time would be different. Maybe it’s about time I let the universe does whatever it wants and we can both win.