The Personal Conduct Clause

by Avery Lang

Heat 3 / 5Novella · 12 chapters30,192 words2h 11m read~3h 21m listen

At 6:42 a.m. in the glass-and-chrome war room of Gilded Pact Tower, Declan Mercer reads his own name beneath a handwritten addendum that will cost him far more than his signature: “personal conduct clause: pretend fiancé.” He swore after his last disaster that he would never again let someone turn him into a convenient story. Then Flynn Calloway walks in—barefoot, sharp-eyed, still wearing last night’s tuxedo shirt—and dismantles every defense he has with a single forensic question.

Flynn built her empire on one rule: everyone around her is replaceable. With a hostile takeover closing in, an activist investor sharpening his knives, and a tabloid blind item already spinning their phantom engagement into a stock-price lifeline, she needs Declan to play the role. Controlled. Time-limited. Strictly on her terms.

Declan negotiates his own clauses. Flynn rewrites them. They sign.

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