Samuel Short

Samuel James Short is the CEO of Swift Industries and the Patriarch of the Short Family. He is the younger son of Benjamin and Willow Short as well as the younger brother of Nico Short.

Samuel Short is the husband of Rosalie Short and the father of Hans, Otto, Elizabeth, Neo Short and Molly Reeves.

Samuel was known by many business colleagues due to his heroics throughout his Naval service as well as his distinct appearance which gains much attention.

## Biography

### Early Life

Samuel was born in Canalshire to Benjamin and Willow Short. He has one brother, Nico Short. Both Samuel and Nico had to learn their own way in life since their parents disappeared mysteriously leaving Nico to take care of both Samuel and the family business.

Shortly before starting school, Samuel and Nico met Hadley and Rosalie Salisbury.

### School life

Samuel became a popular child in school with him making a large friendship of Charlie Dunne, Rosalie Salisbury, Racheal Badley, Sarah Bridges and Beatrice Beasley. He also looked up to his elder brother and his friends: Hadley Salisbury and Daniel Thomas .

In addition to his wide friendship circle, Samuel was a well rounded student achieving high in most subjects apart from Maths. He joined the schools football team, eventually becoming the team captain

##### Romance with Sarah Bridges

Although most of his friendship group advised him against it, Samuel began to develop feelings for Sarah Bridges. He couldn’t quite understand why he was feeling like this for her. Sarah, on the other hand, never reciprocated any feelings back to him.

However, when Samuel was walking back from school, he discovered Sarah had been attacked in a alley. Even though he called for the ambulance, Sarah died in his arms before any medical help could attend to her. Sarah’s death affected Samuel the most out of the friend circle, he entered a deep depression, eventually finding that the one who would listen to him was Rosalie.

A few weeks later, Beatrice was tragically killed as well which didn't help Samuel's mental state, this pushed him further towards Rosalie.

### Early career life

To try and keep his mind away from Sarah and Beatrice's deaths, after taking Rosalie to prom and graduation. Samuel left his small town life to join the Navy. During his naval service, he saw conflict where he lost many of his friends. In total, he had four years in the Navy and raised to the rank of Lieutenant Commander of his vessel.

He was 22 when he found out that his brother had died and returned to Canalshire, reuniting with Rosalie, Citrus and Racheal.

#### Death of Charlie and Racheal

Rosalie sensed the growing tensions between the former close friends and tried to reconcile the pair with a holiday. However this holiday didn't go to plan when on one of the excursions, Citrus decided to start an argument with Samuel about his feelings for Rosalie.

Whilst recovering from the initial shock from the death of his closest friends, Samuel found out from Citrus's brother and sister: Milo and Ruby that another one of their brothers: Caiden had died whilst on active duty with the army. Samuel was blamed by the siblings because Caiden had visited Samuel a few weeks before Citrus's death to gain advice on life in the armed forces, Neither Milo nor Ruby were able to find out from Samuel what advice he gave to Caiden.

### Adult life

To attempt to stay distracted from the tragedy he had been involved in, he began investing most of his time in developing Swift Industries. Rosalie insisted that Samuel goes to therapy to cope with the accident, Samuel decided against her advice and struggled to admit to her that he was suffering from PTSD due to his time with the navy as well as the death of Citrus, Racheal, Beatrice, Sarah and then Caiden. It was around the time of his life that Samuel began to rely heavily on Rosalie for her support.

Samuel's worse fears came true when he was informed by his receptionist, Louise, that Rosalie was injured on one of her last patrols. Samuel abandoned all of his responsibility to be by her side throughout her entire hospital stay. Samuel met Rosalie's officer partner: Emily who demanded to know Samuel's feelings for Rosalie since Emily could tell that Rosalie was in love with him, Samuel initially didn't believe her, his own doubts and insecurity since Sarah never reciprocated his feelings. Samuel eventually confessed to an unconscious Rosalie that he did love her, and always did.

After Rosalie was in a stable condition, Samuel returned to work and attempted to block out any distractions which included his love confession to Rosalie. She found out about his confession due to inklings from Emily and reviewing the hospital CCTV.

#### Confession

Samuel's thoughts began to worry him as he didn't want to worry about loosing Rosalie, to his knowledge he wasn't aware that Rosalie knew about his initial confession to her at her hospital bed. He managed to avoid Rosalie for most of the week as she slowly returned to work however, she got tired of not being around him. She infiltrated his office and told him about her feelings about him, telling him that she knew what he said whilst she was in hospital.

Although he was initially embarrassed that she knew about his feelings, it made him feel slightly better that Rosalie told him that she shared the same feelings. He was stunned yet eventually made the split second decision that he couldn't spend any moment away from her. He eventually confessed his feelings to her face.

> "Rosalie, these last few weeks have been torture without you. I don't think I could face the day without you. I love you Rosalie Salisbury, and I'm so sorry it took me so long to tell you"
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### Meeting Alexander Salisbury

Rosalie and Samuel were both surprised when Rosalie opened the door to find her nephew, Alexander Salisbury, on the doorstep with a note from her brother Hadley apologising about having to do this to them. Samuel made sure that Rosalie was made Alexander's official guardian. To Samuel's surprise, when Alexander began to settle into the lifestyle that Samuel could provide, he called Rosalie and Samuel 'uncle and aunt' first before that changed to 'mum and dad'