Mated at First Sight

She brews poison, studies poison, and plays with it—her deepest passion. Saving lives, ending them, or breaking a soul? Those are just her hobbies. She’s a doctor, technically, but empathy is absent from her prescription. One injury brings two strangers together. He’s a soldier; she’s a military medic. First meeting: she saves him from death’s door. Second meeting: she jokingly offers herself. He says, “I am willing.” She replies, “I was joking.” For her, the world holds only the sick and the dead. For him, only family and soldiers. But when they collide, everything changes.