Pulsebound: The Echo of Us

The first time our pulses skipped, I knew I was condemned.

In a world governed by the Heartbeat Contract, love isn't a choice-it's a physical merger. When two people fall, their hearts physically sync, forcing a shared biological rhythm. But for Caius Mourne and Mireya Solis, synchronization is not a fairy tale. It is a slow, agonizing execution.

Caius is a man living on borrowed beats, a dangerous soul built on walls of ice and a terrifying family history of cardiac collapse. Mireya is a preservationist who knows exactly what happens when the bond breaks: either excruciating, body-shattering physical agony, or the systematic, irreversible deletion of every memory of the person you loved.

They promised to stay apart. They swore never to let their heartbeats match. But when a forced assignment traps them within the same suffocating walls, the biological pull begins. The deeper the obsession grows, the tighter the contract binds, until their pulses start to mimic each other in a frantic, fatal dance. To love is to bleed. To walk away is to forget the only person who made their heart beat in the first place.

How far would you go to remember a love that is actively killing you?