Claire Brennan is forty-four, married, and tired of a dead bedroom that still has love in it. Daniel is forty-six, still hers, and running on fumes. They hire help so they can remember they have a life.
Mina Kang is twenty-two, broke, careful, and the most beautiful person who has ever asked Claire for a job. She is good with Sophie. She is good in the kitchen. She is not invisible.
Want arrives the way weather does: first as a look, then as a hand that lingers on a raincoat, then as a night no one can put back in the bottle. Claire does not want a secret. She wants her husband to see her take what she wants. Daniel does not want a slip. He wants his house to be honest again. Mina does not want to be a dare. She wants to be kept.
The First Night is an explicit contemporary erotic short for adults 18+. It is Part 1 of Ours and is meant to be read in order.
Content warning: age-gap intimacy between consenting adults, a married couple sharing a partner, female/female sex, oral sex, voyeurism, coaching during a sexual encounter, and unprotected sex. All characters in sexual situations are 18+. A child lives in the household and does not appear in any sexual scene.
