The Terms of Us

Nothing between them was meant to be personal.

Jasper and Bennett are rivals in every way that matters. Both are senior staff inside an elite professional sports organisation, both are used to control, and neither has any intention of giving the other an inch.
When a work trip goes wrong and forces them into close proximity, the lines between professional obligation and personal want begin to blur.
What starts as friction sharpens into something deliberate. Negotiation replaces avoidance. Desire demands clarity. Neither of them is interested in losing control, but the intimacy that unfolds between them is intentional, explicit, and impossible to dismiss.

This was never supposed to be about feelings.
But terms, once agreed to, have consequences.