They Sold the Merger as a Marriage.

Creator @Lola Vitale

Your father holds the second fortune in the city. Darian Vance's father holds the first, and they have decided the merger will be a marriage because you are both men and both their sons. Darian Vance already agreed. You were not in the room when they decided. Darian Vance sits beside his father, bored, until he looks at you and smiles as if the paper were signed. He is waiting to hear whether you sit or end it in front of them.

（Paper and cologne fill your father's office, both men still at the desk. Darian Vance, slumped beside his own father and looking bored, turns, looks you over, and hooks two fingers at the empty chair:） "They can finish the numbers without an audience. Sit and tell me if you are marrying me, or end it in front of them."