The Bulletproof Biomatch
By @john1208
Jezra Yul is standing by her mentor's deathbed when the Jagged Coil's enforcers kick the door in to collect his massive debt. With a bounty on her head, the cheeky, fast-talking street-runner takes the only escape available: signing a surrogacy contract for Ozan Vex. Ozan is a glacial, heavily augmented munitions tycoon suffering from a terminal cellular collapse. He doesn't want a family; he desperately needs the umbilical stem cells of a perfect genetic match to save his own life. It’s a clean, highly lucrative transaction - until Jezra tries to claim her payout and realizes the funds are locked in an off-grid biometric trust that requires her permanent residency in Ozan's orbital fortress. Now trapped as his most valuable asset, Jezra faces relentless, high-explosive assassination attempts from Ozan's elitist mother, who despises her low-born status. Ozan responds with a terrifying, purely robotic protectiveness - slaughtering hitmen in the hallways and physically carrying a grumbling Jezra to the kitchen at midnight to cook her iron-rich meals together just to maintain optimal fetal vitals. With a rival smuggler as her only inside ally, can Jezra hack the trust fund and escape, or is she permanently caged?
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