Outrunning My Stolen Destiny
By @john1208
"Sign the transfer." The magistrate's voice barely carried over the roar of the atmospheric turbines outside as he slammed the papers down. Just like that, my sister Bexali struck a deal to trade me the sickly, arrogant scholar Varek Lusk, claiming Caldor, my seemingly humble fiancé, for herself. Bexali thinks she’s saving our district by controlling Caldor - the secret heir to the ruthless Jin fortune who destroyed our home in her past life. But her desperate, toxic greed is about to push him into illegal, explosive ignis-vapor smuggling that will ruin them both. I’m just trying to survive. Varek and I have hated each other since our days at the aero-academy, and everyone expects his failing lungs to give out in a month. But beneath my quiet, socially anxious exterior, I'm simply too stubborn to let my rival die. When a syndicate hit-squad kicks down our door, I realize Varek is on the verge of a kinetic breakthrough. If I can physically tackle him before he makes the fatal mistake of testing his volatile prototype on himself, we might just survive. Can two hyper-competitive nerds outrun a city of assassins and become billionaires before Bexali’s stolen empire detonates?
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