Will a former lover really ride to your rescue?

That's a theme I use a lot in my books. Lovers with permanent expectations whose relationship explodes in anger. One word elads to another...and phfft!!!It reminds me of a country song that's a favorite of mine: We Believe In Happy Endings. In the song the lyrics say, "Who can say just how it starts, Angry words and broken hearts." And isn't that just the truth? It starts with nohting and pretty soon everything's broken.
But then something dramatic happens, or circumstances throw them together again, and the discover the spark is still there. So why did they split up to begin with?
That's the core of my latest release from The Wild Rose Press, Boomerang.

Take a glance at this, then leave me a comment on what you think about situations like this.


Blurb:
When Katya “Kat” Lombardo wakes up in the den of her partner’s palatial home with a gun in hr hand and his dead body on the floor beside her, she knows she’s in big trouble. She has no recollection of the events leading up to this, or how or why she has this gun. She calls on the only person she feels she can trust, Zak Delaney, her former lover who she broke with after a bitter argument. But can Zak put aside his bitterness to help her? As she runs from the people trying to kill her, people who destroy her home, and her business and definitely want to destroy her, will the chemistry still there between them sizzle to the surface or will it explode and demolish them both?
Excerpt:
If she’d had anyone else to call she’d have called them, but in her bones she knew that Zak was the only person who would respond the way he did. Anyone else would either tell her she was crazy or insist she wait for the police. And truth to tell, Zak might still do that. Somehow she had to get past the wall between them and convince him to help her.
She felt his eyes on her and looked up to find his gaze raking over her.
“Nice threads,” he commented, his gaze roaming over her dress. “Doesn’t look like something that came off the rack. Lombardo Sim must definitely be doing well. So. Were you at another one of Nate’s fancy shindigs?”
“Zak...” If he would just stop poking at the old wounds, although she probably should have expected it. But she needed his help so badly and she needed him not to be angry with her, or resentful.
He held up a hand. “Sorry. I’ll be good. Why don’t I wait until the coffee’s done? Then we’ll talk.”
Lost in thought as she tried to create a story with some semblance of coherency, she was startled when Zak put a mug filled with hot liquid in front of her.
“Drink this. You look like you could use a good jolt of caffeine.”
“Thanks.” She picked the mug up with two hands but they were shaking so badly the hot coffee sloshed over onto her skin and the table. She put the mug down quickly, more liquid spilling over the rim. “Oh! Oh, Zak, I’m so sorry.”
He looked at her shaking hands and the puddle of liquid. “Don’t worry. Hold on a sec.”
He snagged paper towels from the holder on the counter, mopped the table, then gently blotted her hands. When she curled her fingers into her palms, trying to still the trembling, his hands closed over hers. They were firm and warm, and the heat from them seeped into her system more than the hot coffee could ever have done.
“Kat?” The deep sound of his voice cut through her panic. “Kat, look at me.”
She forced her eyes to meet his. “What?”
“Take a deep breath. Good. Another one.” Air whooshed out of her lungs as he released her hands and sat down opposite her. “So let me ask you. Was tonight’s call to Zak Delaney the man who was your one-time...well, whatever I was? Was it a call to me personally or do you want to hire our security services?”
The jackhammer in her head had finally eased but she still had trouble focusing, putting the pieces together. God, if only she could think straight. But his was a fair enough question. Which one had she called? She knew that, a year ago, Zak had merged with the much larger Guardian Security Corporation, becoming a partner with Reno Sullivan and Nick Vanetta.
She knew Guardian was considered one of the largest operations in the country. It provided a wide range of services for both its corporate and individual clients, and occasionally did under the radar work for the government. She hadn’t given a thought to how Zak’s partners would feel about this. Would they object to him helping her? Maybe he wouldn’t even want to help her. He might still resent her. Or not want to involve his partners.
How should she answer him?
“Both, I guess,” she admitted. “But...mostly you.”
A mixture of surprise and...something else...caring?...flashed across his face, then disappeared so quickly she wasn’t even sure she’d seen it.
“That’s a shocker, I gotta tell you.” He shoved his hands in his pockets. “We didn’t exactly part on what you’d call the best of terms, if I remember correctly.”
Well, she supposed he had to say it.
The nausea was rolling up out of her stomach now. She was terrified and he was her only hope, but what if he couldn’t get past everything that had happened before? If all he wanted to do was throw ancient history at her, then call the police, what would she do? She couldn’t think of any place else to turn.
“Zak, listen...”
He rubbed the back of his neck. “Sorry. Knee jerk reaction.” He turned and looked at her, studying her face as if he expected to read the answers to his unasked questions written in indelible ink. “I really am sorry, Kat. I’m being a jerk. I realize you’d have to be pretty desperate to call me, so let’s cut to the chase. You’ve got to tell me what happened if you want my help.”
Was that a trace of leftover affection in his tone? Oh, God, she hoped so.
Zak added fresh coffee to her mug, then folded his fingers around hers while she took a sip. The contact was like a jolt of electricity zapping through her body. The chemistry between them was certainly still there, and when he moved his hand away she wanted to reach for him but forcibly stopped herself.

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