i can’t believe i fell for the nerdy rich boy. honestly? it started as a joke. a stupid college dare. i’m amara. i thought i was smarter than everyone else. smarter than theo langford; the red-haired “coding ghost” who could barely meet my eyes without stuttering. i was supposed to make him fall for me for ten dollars. just laughs. no feelings. except i fell. hard. then i ruined everything. i kept a secret i never should have kept; one involving his brother julian, a family lie, and an aunt theo was never meant to know about. i let julian get between us. and when theo found us in that dark hallway, he didn’t wait for explanations. he didn’t see two cousins. he saw betrayal. theo didn’t just leave. he erased himself. two years later, the boy i loved is gone. theo is back; but he’s cold now. they call him the titan. a billionaire who treats people like disposable code. he’s married to a russian mafia heiress. he looks at me like i’m a virus beneath his polished shoes. he thinks he knows what i did. he’s wrong. there’s a little girl now; alina. his daughter. his heart. and she’s in danger because of the monsters his family does business with. i’m the only one who knows enough to help him save her. i betrayed the only person who ever truly saw me. now i have to fight beside him, watch him belong to someone else, and survive a world built on blood, power, and money. you can rewrite code. you can rebuild empires. but can you fix a heart after you’ve turned it into ice? i don’t know. what i do know is this: i’m not leaving him again.