Encryption of the Heart
She wanted a husband to win a corporate war.
He just wanted his mom to stop nagging him.
Neither expected the deal to be more dangerous and more intoxicating than they imagined.
Rayan isn’t your typical 21-year-old. To his mother, he’s just her lazy, stubborn son who refuses to find a wife.
To the world’s underground cyber network, he’s a ghost—one of the most feared solo hackers alive. But no one in his everyday life knows that.
Stuck working as a cashier in a pharmacy after barely scraping through a pharmacy degree, Rayan lives quietly in a run-down apartment, avoiding drama.
That peace shatters when his mother ambushes him with a blind date.
After the date, a luxury car screeches to a halt in front of him later that night. Out steps a cold, stunning CEO in red heels, espresso-brown hair brushing her shoulders, and eyes that look like they’re used to commanding empires. Without preamble, she says the last words he ever expected to hear:
“Marry me.”
From a reluctant marriage to navigating corporate wars, social minefields, and unspoken secrets, Rayan will have to keep his true identity hidden—while trying to figure out why the woman who can have anyone chose her.
Is this marriage just a deal… or the most dangerous encryption he’s ever had to crack?
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