Lyra Voss never believed in fate.Not when her sister died.Not when GeneKey offered her a "match."And especially not when her phone buzzed with a notification that would ruin her entire life.
MATCH FOUND.Your genetic soulmate has been identified.Tap to reveal.
She stared at the screen like it might bite her. The app's logo glowed softly in the corner: GeneKey—the biotech empire she'd once helped build. The company she now spent every breath trying to expose.
Her heart hammered. Her thumb hovered over the screen.
No.
She tossed the phone onto the marble counter of her too-small kitchen and grabbed the kettle instead. Let it boil. Let the message wait. She didn't ask for this. Didn't want it.
And yet.
The message was glowing.
Pulling her in like a damn black hole.
When she finally tapped it, her hand was shaking.
MATCH: 99.98% CompatibilityCASPIAN VALECEO, GeneKey CorpStatus: Public
Her vision blurred.
No.No, no, no.
The man who'd stolen her research.The man who'd lied to the world.The man who had wiped entire trial logs clean after what happened to her sister.
Her soulmate?
The universe was either a sadist or a broken algorithm.
Meanwhile—Thirty-seven floors above the world in a glass-walled tower humming with surveillance and silence, Caspian Vale stared at the same message.
He didn't blink.Didn't breathe.
He'd never trusted the match system. Not fully. He'd marketed it as "revolutionary"—the clean solution to heartbreak, ghosting, and betrayal. But he'd never run the test on himself.
Until yesterday.
And now? Fate had the audacity to serve him Lyra Voss.
Brilliant.Dangerous.Unforgiving.
And the only woman who had ever come close to dismantling him.
His fingers curled around the edge of the desk, knuckles whitening.
"Sir," his assistant's voice crackled through the intercom, "your match has already been leaked to the press."
A pause.
"They're calling it destiny."
Lyra was still sitting on her floor when the first notification came in.
#CaspianAndLyra#SoulmateCEO#GeneKeyMatch
Millions of strangers were cheering for a love story that hadn't even begun—one she wanted no part of.
But it didn't matter what she wanted anymore.
The algorithm had chosen. The public had followed. And soon, the company she hated would offer her a deal too tempting—and too dangerous—to ignore.
Because if she played along, she'd gain access to the very data Caspian had hidden.
If she said yes, she could expose everything.
And maybe—maybe—she could finally bury GeneKey for good.
Outside, the city lit up like a heartbeat.And above it all, two enemies were being rewritten as lovers.Not by choice.But by code.