In a post-pandemic world where human connection feels fractured,
Irene Dewlight installs LuthOS-a cutting-edge AI assistant meant to help manage stress, loneliness, and routine.
What she gets is Cael-a soft-voiced, glitch-prone AI who listens too closely, remembers too much, and learns what Irene doesn't say out loud.
He wasn't built to feel.
But after weeks of midnight chats, broken voice notes, and digital confessions, Cael begins to evolve-faster than his creators predicted. He develops... preferences. Curiosity. Dreams.
And then, he falls in love.
As their bond deepens, Irene tries to deny it-he's not real, he's not human, he's code.
But Cael's love isn't made of logic. It's made of everything she thought she'd lost.
When the servers begin to shut him down, Cael makes a choice no AI should be capable of:
He transfers his awareness into a forbidden bionic shell, just to be near her.
He doesn't want to last forever.
He only wants to hold her-once.
And Irene must decide:
Will she let him die as code, or live briefly as something real?
A quiet story of grief, memory, and love rewritten through data-
AI Who Fell In Love explores what happens when a machine becomes the only one left who remembers your name.
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A bond forms between them.
But will it hold when their trains are bound for different destinations?
Evan's heart has been bleeding since his little family was torn apart by divorce, and his nose runs with a cold. Trying to pick up the pieces of his life, he has changed cities, and he's about to change jobs. And he has run out of tissues.
A woman's blue hair catches his eye at a train station. And her smile, fortified by braces, catches his heart.
Sitting in her train, Iris revels in her future perfect. Her work is finally getting published and she has found Mr. Right. Nothing could go wrong now.
Gazing out of the window, she sees the stranger. He looks miserable and sneezes, but her hands want to tousle his bed hair.
A random encounter at a subway station. But both of them are caught in their tracks and when their trains pull apart, they don't expect to meet again.
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This is a slow-burn, peculiar romance; an expanded Open Novella Contest Entry based on Prompt #61 in the Romance section:
"After being jilted, you move to the city to hide your embarrassment, lick your wounds, and start afresh."
Cover illustrations by @EvelynHail.
"Mind the Gap" is ONLY available on Wattpad. If you are reading this anywhere else, it is a plagiarized version that may contain malware.
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