Captain falls for $1 rival bot — until a shipping alert exposes the human underneath.
A system alert on Julian Reed's phone shatters his recovery routine: the one-dollar bionic companion modeled after Kyle Voth never shipped, meaning the man sharing the injured captain's bed is the flesh-and-blood rival who spent four seasons claiming to hate him. Julian had let his guard down, convinced the lookalike unit was programmed obedience that could never reject him, only to discover every intimate moment was a calculated risk by the opponent he thought he knew.
Modern Romance
Secret Crush Turned Real
Slow-Burn Romance
What draws you in
Rival secretly replaces $1 robot order
Injured captain falls for fake machine
Shipping alert exposes dangerous deception
You'll love it if
Lovers of secret-identity tension and rivals-to-lovers twists will eat this up.