Bred by The Others Bundle 2

Three respectable wives. Other men. The name on the paper stayed his.

In The Gardener's Double Cream, Hannah's husband is away again and the garden has been left to rot. Billy is late-fifties, dirty-booted, and not interested in a quote. He comes back the next week with his tattooed mate Josh. What starts in the greenhouse ends on the lawn. Two different men, no protection, and a bill that arrives with no discount. Her husband comes home to a tidy border and a wife who is already full.

In Another Private Wife, Claire and Tom book a private charter off Thailand and tell themselves the crew will stay out of the way. The crew have seen this pattern before. One man watches. Then the captain. Then the rest. Tom watches too. Then he joins. Then he takes what is left. By the time the boat turns north they already treat her as another private wife who thought the charter was only theirs. She posts a polite review. She carries more than memories home.

In The Rooms Upstairs, Mark goes to stay with his father and Sasha keeps the pub. Dean has the cellar. Kyle has the kitchen. Chris has the van keys. They eat at her table. They sleep on her stairs. The first night after last orders she asks them the question Mark has never answered. Two weeks of the house used properly. She tells them she wants a child. She tells them not to pull out. She tells Mark, on the phone, that the lads are well-behaved. When he drives home he believes the mess is his. Six weeks later there are two lines on the cistern. His name goes on the form.

Raw, risky, and filled by the wrong men.