Kirstie and Ryan's Wedding Day draws close. It should be a happy time for them. But have they taken on too much? After a major burglary, is it the last straw? But it's when you're in trouble, you find out who your friends are.

Meanwhile, in the City, a dark threat looms. Death stalks the streets. And Klempner grows suspicious.

A BDSM, Ménage Erotic Romance and Thriller

The Lover's Children is created by Simone Leigh, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

The Lover's Children

Scrabbling and fumbling at the bedlam I’ve created of handles and bristles, I stack them back into the corner. But somehow they won’t fit, and I end up jamming them together in the bucket like some elephant-sized version of pick-up-sticks.


I was never any good at the game even as a kid. But now, the whole sorry mess somehow knots itself into a muddle of string, tattered threads and electric cable, wedging between wooden slats, getting caught in crevices and gaps between the shelves, until as a broom handle tangles into the cable of the floor washer, the snarled-up shambles jolts, knocks against a shelf bracket and the whole lot drops. 


Brushes and bottles and sprays and cleaners crash down around me. Glass bottles of white spirit and disinfectant smash on the tiles, splashing up again over clean linen. A bucket of paint pops its lid and a tide of white emulsion washes over the floor…


Chapter 114: Pick-Up-Sticks - Georgie