The Foursome Experiment

I was hired to write the report that decides whether Gallowmere House is worth saving. Eleven weeks, one derelict wing, and a heritage board that will only sell a house like that to a man who intends to live in it.

Cassian Ardley intends to live in it. He just doesn't intend to live in it alone, and the board wants to see a household.

So he offers me a contract. Eleven weeks. Wear his ring in front of people who matter. Smile when they ask how we met. Let the village believe it, let the board believe it, and let him pay me enough to buy back the only thing my family ever lost.

I should have laughed. I signed instead.

What the contract doesn't say — what nobody writes down — is that Cassian doesn't come alone either. Rafe Mallory, who talks to fill the silences Cassian leaves on purpose, and who works out inside a week exactly which of my sentences are lies. Ivo Sandell, who says almost nothing and misses absolutely nothing, and is somehow the one I can't be in a room with.

They've shared everything they own for nineteen years. They do not intend to start dividing now.

Then the storm takes the road out, and the only habitable room in the east wing has one bed, one fire, and four people who have run out of reasons to keep pretending.

Here is the part I can't tell any of them: my grandmother scrubbed the floors of that house, and the Ardleys' people put her out of it in a single afternoon. The report I'm being paid to write is the one thing in the world that can burn their purchase to the ground.

Every night the performance gets less like a performance. Every day the deadline gets closer. And a rival bidder with a twenty-year grudge already knows exactly what my signature is worth.

I'm not naïve enough to call three men a future. I'm not honest enough, yet, to call it anything else.

Tropes: Fake Dating · Reverse Harem (MFMM) · Forced Proximity · Only One Bed · Dom/Sub Power Exchange · Age-Gap · Possessive Alpha × 3 · Billionaire

Heat: Very high. Fully explicit throughout, frequent and graphic. Power exchange, group dynamics, and possessive claiming between consenting adults.

18+ only. All characters are aged 18 or older. Contains explicit sexual content, BDSM elements including negotiated power exchange, and strong language. Standalone with a guaranteed HEA — no cliffhanger