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Hedone Verna doesn't believe in chaos. She calculates it.
Cold, brilliant, and ruled by logic, she's clawed her way to the top of her law program - emotionless, undefeated, and utterly alone. Feelings are a liability. And people? Nothing but unpredictable variables.
Until Zale Kaida crashes into her world.
Towering, infuriating, and alarmingly perceptive, Zale is everything Hedone hates - impulsive, charming, and reckless with the kind of heat she's spent her entire life freezing out. Worse, he's her academic rival... and now, her partner in a case that could define both their careers.
But when a betrayal inside their legal firm threatens to unravel more than just their futures, Hedone and Zale are forced into an uneasy alliance - sharing late nights, close quarters, and one lie too many: that they can keep their hands off each other.
As enemies blur into lovers, secrets begin to surface - some buried in law, others buried in them. And Hedone learns the most dangerous argument isn't in the courtroom... it's the one she's losing against her own heart.
What We Were Never Meant to Be is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance filled with sharp banter, explosive chemistry, fake dating, forced proximity, and emotional warfare - where she fell first, but he fell harder... and neither of them is ready to surrender.