This Is Inevitable | #ONC2022

Kian Brown, a cynical and sarcastic ex-rugby player, is trapped in an elevator with office sweetheart Tate on his way to a potential promotion. Will they go crazy while they wait for freedom or will something more start to bloom?

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Kian Brown has one focus. He dreams of getting promoted at Beauke.co--the illustrious publishing house he works at--to give him the financial stability he needs to support his dream of being a poet. He's told himself that no matter what, he won't let anything stop him from achieving his dream; he's worked too hard and suffered too much to let that happen.

That is until he, on the way to a very important meeting with his boss about a potential promotion, ends up trapped in an elevator with the one person he's been actively avoiding; Tate Wilkinson, the only person that has the skills for the promotion Kian's gunning for. His witty charm that makes Kian unable to form sentences doesn't help either. Fearing that Tate could be the end of Kian's career, he's kept his distance, hoping that he doesn't succeed. At least, that's what he tells himself.

As tensions rise and body heat gets trapped in the elevator, Kian's not sure if its the room or Tate's perfectly windswept brunet hair or his wide sky-blue eyes that's making him sweat. As Kian reluctantly gets to know him while they wait for a way out, Kian discovers that maybe, just maybe, his poetry dream isn't the only thing missing from his life, and that his attraction towards Tate might not just be one sided.

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Prompt #47.
Cover made by the lovely @pea0buttersandwich !