Hostile Merger
MM Corporate Romance
by Chase Power
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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Rivals to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Age Gap, Workplace Romance, One Bed, Competence Kink
Two rival corporate fixers. One tiny apartment. Four weeks to save a failing startup — or destroy each other trying.
When two elite corporate problem-solvers are assigned to rescue the same sinking tech startup, the only way to survive the deal is to cooperate. But between the cramped Airbnb, the investor lies, and the way each man keeps outmaneuvering the other, “professional rivalry” stops being the real problem very quickly.
Dominic Vale is the closer — controlled, precise, and known for fixing impossible situations. At thirty-eight, he’s rebuilt his career from the wreckage of a devastating betrayal, and he’s not about to let anyone get close enough to do it again.
Reed Calloway is the fixer — fast-talking, brilliant, and ruthless when cornered. He reads people better than spreadsheets, which makes him a threat in boardrooms and an absolute disaster in a shared kitchen at midnight.
But as the startup crisis deepens, their arguments start feeling like foreplay, their late-night strategy sessions bleed into something far more personal, and the walls of that tiny apartment can’t contain what’s building between them.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Rivals-to-lovers with razor-sharp banter
✅ Forced proximity in the tiniest apartment imaginable
✅ Age gap (38/28) with a power dynamic that shifts both ways
✅ Competence kink and suits that deserve their own credit
✅ Slow burn that EXPLODES (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: Explicit MM sexual content, strong language, workplace pressure. 18+.
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Chapter One: Hostile Arrival
Every company that’s about to die smells the same on paper. Desperation has a syntax — too many exclamation points in the investor updates, too many references to “runway” without actual numbers attached, too many reshuffled org charts in a twelve-month window.
Standard Sunday night. Standard emergency.
Four weeks. I could survive four weeks with anyone.
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