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About the book

He tracked every dollar. He forgot to track his heart.

Noah Park is broke, exhausted, and very good at a job that does not pay enough to live. He pulls perfect espresso shots, charms customers, and stretches day-old pastries because his bank account stopped allowing groceries to be a routine expense.

Elias Crane is the self-made investor who owns the café. He watches from the corner, tips too much, and eventually leaves Noah a business card with a handwritten observation: hard work deserves better compensation.

The offer is structured. A monthly stipend. Exclusive companionship. Clear rules, boundaries, and safe words. Noah initially refuses—until family expenses and a thirty-day notice make the math impossible to ignore.

What begins as a transaction becomes a relationship built around attention, praise, and teaching Noah to ask for what he wants in bed and outside it. Elias is precise enough to make Noah feel seen in ways money alone cannot explain.

Then Noah discovers that Elias has been tracking their arrangement in a spreadsheet: payments, gifts, and emotional responses reduced to line items. The structure that once made the relationship feel safe suddenly feels like proof that it was never real.

Both men have to decide whether they can build something without the contract that brought them together.

Book details

Author: Jace Wilder
Genre: MM contemporary arrangement romance
Pairing: MM; adult protagonists aged 25 and 39
Tropes: Sugar arrangement, fourteen-year age gap, grumpy/sunshine, class difference, boss/employee, bisexual awakening, touch-starved hero, praise kink, control/surrender
Heat: High heat; explicit adult romance
Ending: Happily ever after

Your ebook edition

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Content notes

For readers 18+. Contains explicit MM sexual content, structured power dynamics, strong language, financial hardship, family medical crisis, and shame around transactional intimacy.