Electric Touch

By Sylvia Tara Dyer

Once, long ago when I was a pompous rock 'n' roll guitar player and Lizzie Delmonico was in a dance crew with Victoria (my girlfriend at the time), Lizzie and I had almost had an affair. We had the kind of chemistry that defies logic. 
It has been over 10 years. The then-girlfriend has long since become a wife and the mother of my two children. 
Just when I decide to retire from the rock 'n' roll scene to focus on my family, Victoria decides that she has had enough of me. Sadly, she dies in a grisly car accident three days before we are due to sign the divorce papers. 
It is now entirely up to me to raise my two children, and I realize that it is a far cry from what I am used to. See, I have always been the fun parent. All I have ever cared about was the fun and games. 
To Emma and Scott, my two kids, Lizzie is 'Aunt Lizzie', mommy's friend who is around even more than dad. We are all grieving Victoria's passing, so it is only natural that she checks up on us all. 
But what happens in those moments when the kids are put to bed and the adults grab a beer and talk about the old times? Time heals all things, but does it heal attraction?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random Press LLC
• Release date: Mar 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386309468

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Introduction

Once, long ago when I was a pompous rock ‘n’ roll guitar player and Lizzie Delmonico was in a dance crew with Victoria (my girlfriend at the time), Lizzie and I had almost had an affair. We had the kind of chemistry that defies logic.

It has been over 10 years. The then-girlfriend has long since become a wife and the mother of my two children.

Just when I decide to retire from the rock ‘n’ roll scene to focus on my family, Victoria decides that she has had enough of me. Sadly, she dies in a grisly car accident three days before we are due to sign the divorce papers.

It is now entirely up to me to raise my two children, and I realize that it is a far cry from what I am used to. See, I have always been the fun parent. All I have ever cared about was the fun and games.

To Emma and Scott, my two kids, Lizzie is ‘Aunt Lizzie’, mommy’s friend who is around even more than dad. We are all grieving Victoria’s passing, so it is only natural that she checks up on us all.

But what happens in those moments when the kids are put to bed and the adults grab a beer and talk about the old times? Time heals all things, but does it heal attraction?

Chapter One

My name is Luke O’Brien. I am a former bass player for the Lunatics, a moderately successful rock ‘n’ roll band. Until six months ago, I was also a husband to a beautiful woman and father to two beautiful children; Scott, 9, and Emma, 7. Let me tell you my life story. Well, at least the last six months of it… it’s been quite eventful.

I retired from the chaotic rock ‘n’ roll scene exactly one year today to focus more on my family life, but my band’s manager decided that the band could score some valuable publicity along with my exit. Nothing brings publicity like a good old sex scandal, especially one involving a married man and a 19-year old groupie.

My wife immediately booted me from our home, then, two months later, sued for divorce. She wanted full custody of the children, the house, and a fat check at the end of each month. I had no objection to any of those demands. She had earned the house, she made far less money than I, and the kids were better off with her.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my children. I always did. It was for that reason exactly that I didn’t sue for custody. I had never spent more than three months with my children. Studio time, tours, and media publicity kept me out of the house most of their lives. I was not egotistic enough to think that I could just bombard my way into their lives. I was more available to them than I was before, and that was all that mattered.

I opened a real estate company and started flipping houses. It is a business I am quite good at. I just love how I can turn old dilapidated houses into warm, inviting homes. My infamy