Description
In a world where emotion is regulated and intimacy is criminal, one wrong touch could cost her everything. At Fairbridge Academy, every student wears their status on their wrist-green for compliant, yellow for unstable, red for dangerous. Eden Vale is a Yellow, one glitch away from losing her scholarship, her future, and her carefully constructed control. She knows the rules: stay calm, stay distant, stay unseen. When rumors threaten to tip her status into the Red, Eden makes an impossible choice-ask Cassian Rowe, her rival turned top-ranked Green, to fake a relationship. It's a calculated move. Safe. Strategic. Until it isn't. Because Cassian isn't as Green as he seems. And every touch between them-every glance, every lingering pause-draws them closer to the system's edge. As they navigate a web of surveillance, secrets, and the buried code her mother left behind, Eden must decide: how much is she willing to risk for something as dangerous as feeling? Some codes weren't meant to be followed. Some were meant to be broken.
1. The Smile That Broke Protocol
