Bargaining with Wolves

I needed the job more than I needed my pride. That's the only reason I stayed in my chair when I realized the interview for Executive Assistant to the partners of Calder & Vale wasn't with one man, but three.

Julian Calder doesn't negotiate. He states terms and waits, unbothered, for the room to catch up to him. Marcus Vale smiles like a man who's already decided how the evening ends. And Theo Reyes — the quiet one, the one who watches instead of talking — is somehow the most unsettling of the three, because he's the only one who seems to actually see me.

They tell me the real position isn't the one posted online. I should walk out. I sign the contract instead, because rent doesn't care about my self-respect, and because some reckless part of me wants to know exactly how far three men who've never lost anything are willing to go to keep what they've decided they want.

Now I answer to all three of them — in the boardroom, and long after it's cleared out — and every rule I thought I understood about what I'm allowed to want has come apart in my hands.

I'm not naive enough to call it love. I'm not strong enough to call it a mistake.

A rival firm is circling Calder & Vale with a hostile buyout and a decade-old grudge, and the three men who have never once had to choose between winning and keeping something are running out of time to decide which one actually matters more. If I'm going to survive being claimed by all three of them, I'm going to have to stop waiting for permission to claim something back.

Tropes: Boss/Employee • Reverse Harem (MFMM) • Power Exchange • Workplace Forbidden • Possessive Alpha x3 • Corporate Rivals-to-Allies

(High heat, fade-to-black intimacy. All characters 18+.)