The Merger Clause

She hated Liam Chen on principle — his parking spot theft was just the opening argument.

When a hostile merger forces them into the same office, same project, and an absurd fake-couple arrangement to appease the board, Maya has exactly one strategy: get through this without letting him know he's winning.

He's every negotiation tactic she's never been able to counter. She's every argument he can't seem to drop. And somewhere between the shared deadlines and the convincing-enough touches, the lines between performance and truth start to blur.