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    Fighting Flames
    Fighting Flames
    Fighting Flames
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    Fighting Flames

    By Rhonda Lee Carver

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    Surviving an attack in a parking garage by a deranged client, Karsyn Page changed her life.
    A year later, she believes she has her life in control and would never again fall victim to any circumstance.
    Naked and lying on a massage table, a fire breaks out and Captain Nick Stone sweeps in and saves her. Tall, sexy and cocky—Nick is exactly what Karsyn doesn’t need. With internal and external scars still healing, she refuses to allow his bright blue eyes and charm melt her protective wall.
    Nick is anti-relationship, but he loves a challenge. Uptight Karsyn drips ice, but cold is the last thing he feels when she’s near. Before long, fires aren’t the only thing he’s fighting. A flame of a new kind might just have him rethinking his priorities.
    Can Karsyn let go of the past and trust? Can Nick chip away the wall she’s built around her heart?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRhonda Lee Carver
    Release dateApr 8, 2014
    ISBN9781311836380
    Fighting Flames
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    Rhonda Lee Carver

    Suffering from years of hopeless romantic notions with sexy, sassy heroines and bad-ass heroes taking residence in her mind, Rhonda decided to write, bringing the stories alive. With baby on hip and laptop on the other, and a couple of years later, Rhonda has published seven eBooks with a handful of spicy love stories waiting for the final touches. When Rhonda isn’t crafting edge-of-your-seat, sizzling novels, you will find her with her children, watching soccer, watching a breathtaking movie, traveling to exotic places, doing (or trying) yoga, and finding new ways to keep her smile bright. Rhonda thrives on making her readers happy. She believes life can be a challenge, but reading is a place where one goes to get away. Everyone deserves romance—one page at a time...

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      Fighting Flames - Rhonda Lee Carver

      FIGHTING FLAMES

      By Rhonda Lee Carver

      All rights reserved

      Copyright Rhonda Lee Carver 2014

      Cover design by Samantha Holt

      Published by Rhonda Lee Carver at Smashwords

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidences are a fabrication of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, establishments, events, or locales is coincidental.

      Dedication:

      To those who have believed in me. With love…

      One year ago…

      The elevator doors slid open and Karsyn Page exited the cubicle into the quiet parking garage. She’d spent another late night in the office and everyone else had already gone home.

      Digging to the bottom of her purse, she finally found her keys after wading through tubes of lipstick, a bottle of lotion, receipts and coins. She clicked the unlock button on her keypad, the car beeped twice and she quickly headed toward the Lexus. Her fingers were on the handle when she heard footsteps behind her. She turned and scanned the dim garage. Nothing.

      She never liked parking in the garage, but the alternative meant walking a mile in heels in the snow.

      A sense of relief spread through her when she pulled the door open.

      Karsyn Page.

      She jerked and spun, her keys fell from her hand as she looked up into the pale features of the man who’d startled her. Alarm sped through her, making her limbs tingle and the hair stand on her neck. Robert? You scared me. What are you doing here? We didn’t have an appointment, did we? Even as the questions left her tongue, she knew the answers. No client ever approached her outside of the office.

      Robert and Lilith Wall had started counseling six months ago when he was caught cheating with his secretary. After Lilith had threatened divorce, he’d pleaded for her to attend counseling with him. That’s when Karsyn came into the picture. At first, Robert seemed like a typical mid-life crisis victim, until he stopped taking his meds for psychosis. He then discontinued the weekly sessions when Karsyn suggested that he should seek individual counseling to handle some underlying issues from his past.

      Her mind quickly filtered through his case file. It’d been a while since she’d seen him. His wife had complained of his temper, but he’d never been violent, at least as far as Karsyn knew.

      Lilith left me. He drove a shaking hand through his disheveled hair. His piercing green eyes were cold and distant.

      Robert, I’m sorry, but since you’re no longer accompanying Lilith to counseling sessions, I can’t discuss the issues. If you two decide to start again, I’d be glad to schedule you. The corner of his mouth lowered. His glare made her instincts strike full alert. In the five years that she’d been a therapist, she’d never encountered a disgruntled client, but she knew what signs to look for.

      His pupils were dilated. Sweat covered his forehead and dampened the armpits of his shirt. His breathing was shallow. He had all of the signs of danger. She impulsively took a side- step to gain some safe distance.

      She left me and it’s your fault. You told her to leave, and now the bitch is seeing someone else! His breathing grew heavier.

      Karsyn’s adrenaline spiked as she talked her nerves down. She’d been trained on manic patients, but now, faced with the encounter, some of her confidence was lost. Why don’t we go to my office and discuss things? I’m sure we’d both be more comfortable there. I can get you a glass of water. Where was the security guard? She subtly looked over Robert’s shoulder and scanned the empty garage. Any other time, the guard would be tripping over himself gawking at her.

      We tried that, remember? It didn’t work. You two cunts schemed against me. I should have made her stop coming to see you. I should have taken care of this long ago. He paced on the balls of his feet, rocking back and forth, as one brow twitched. Beads of sweat ran down his cheeks.

      Robert, I understand you’re angry and upset. You and Lilith have problems that are difficult to work through. When faced with—

      Shut up, you bitch! No more of your two-cent theories on how to make my marriage work. I wonder how many other relationships you’ve destroyed in your career of making people miserable. He clenched his hands into fists and the air left Karsyn’s lungs.

      Realizing she couldn’t talk him down, she focused on getting away. Her keys were on the floor, useless as a weapon. Her three-inch heel would be a second choice, but by the time she got it off her foot, he’d be on her. She took another step to her left, but this time he stepped with her, blocking her. Whatever you plan to do, Robert, you need to think over the consequences. If you do something to harm me, you’ll go to prison and there won’t be an opportunity to work things out with Lilith. Her mind sifted through logical reasoning.

      He shoved a hand deep into his back pocket, and when he brought it out, he opened his palm, showing her the small knife. The sharp blade glistened in warning. My relationship is over.

      Karsyn threw her purse at his face, which gave her a second head start, but she didn’t get far in her high heels on the slippery cement floor. His heavy footsteps quickened as her breathing grew louder in her ears. She reached the elevator door, slammed the button, and just as the doors came open she felt a sharp blow to her back, sending her to her knees. Liquid heat streamed down her waist and into a puddle around her. Blood.

      She fell face-first into the elevator compartment.

      Put the knife down or I’ll shoot! Through a fuzzy tunnel, Karsyn heard the booming voice. Too late for help. I’m dying.

      Her body became weightless.

      A shot splintered the air as everything turned black.

      CHAPTER ONE

      HE…HE ISN’T the same.

      What do you mean that he’s not the same? Karsyn asked the teary-eyed, middle-aged woman, Edith Brown.

      Since he was laid off last June he hasn’t touched me—you know—like a man should touch his wife. He’s distant. I don’t think he finds me attractive anymore. I found porn on his computer, lots of it, with women doing things I’ve never imagined. Edith sniffled and nervously rolled the hem of her shirt with her shaking fingers. Karsyn handed her the tissue box. I hate to think after thirty years of marriage we could end up apart.

      Karsyn set her pad of paper and pen on the coffee table and leaned forward, connecting with the other woman. "Edith, I’m a couple’s therapist. If your husband would come with you

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