The Acquisition: A High-Heat Billionaire Romance Novella

***OPEN DOOR HIGH HEAT 5/5 SPICE***
⚠️ TROPES & HEAT LEVEL ⚠️ • OPEN DOOR / HIGH HEAT • SPICE LEVEL: (5/5) • Enemies to Lovers / Hostile Takeover • Primal & Possessive Billionaire • Forced Proximity / Only One Bed • Brat Taming & Praise
(Fair warning: unhinged spice descriptions ahead. You won’t find standard anatomy terms here, just chaos and colorful metaphors.)

She needed a scandal to burn her family's empire. She picked the one man capable of burning her.

Chloe Vance has until midnight to ruin her family's immaculate portfolio.

With her mother threatening to auction her off to the highest corporate bidder by the morning board meeting, her options are running out. She can submit to a bloodless arranged marriage to patch her father’s margins, or she can detonate a scandal so lethal they’ll be scrubbing soot out of their boardrooms for decades.

Enter Julian Corvus.

Ruthless, arrogant, and devastatingly bored, the crown prince of Corvus Capital is the apex predator circling her family's firm. He was never supposed to be a savior. He was supposed to be a combustible weapon—a one-night match struck in the dark to burn her parents' leveraged lives to ash.

All she has to do is bait the trap, lure him away from the gala, and survive until morning.

Except Julian doesn't play the fool, and he certainly doesn't negotiate. The moment the penthouse door locks behind them, Chloe realizes the terrifying reality of playing with fire: you don't strike matches over open gasoline unless you're prepared to burn with it.