Wren

She spends every night deciding what's best for other people. For one night, she wants someone else to decide.

Wren is a night nurse. For twelve hours a shift she lifts, washes, checks and reassures, asking permission before every touch. By the time she gets home, she can't bear to be touched herself.

Then a late-night thread on a forum for shift workers leads her to an application for The Touch. There are no real names and no visible faces, and there is no touch without permission. The questions are blunt, and so are her answers.

A week later, she climbs the stairs of an old solicitor's building with a black silk scarf in her bag. The rules are hers to set, and the minute she asks for will be a real minute.

Wren is a standalone short story set in the world of The Touch, Evelyn Locke's dark erotic romance.

Contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults. For readers 18+.