Virtually Yours (Accidentally in Love #1)

Prologue

There’s a certain expectation when you meet someone who changes your life. A memory you can look back on and think, ah, there’s the moment when everything changed for the better.

When an email landed in my inbox, I had no such expectation.

It was a boring, mundane day, and he email was equally unexciting. A woman in the heart of Scotland, complaining about an error in the app I’d developed.

Lucky, lucky me.

I didn’t believe in fate then. I believed in systems and logic. Cause and effect. I believed nothing meaningful came from accidents.

I was wrong.

Our eyes didn’t meet across the room when we met. The world didn’t tilt on its axis. Choirs didn’t sing in harmony, nor was I struck by any sense of inevitability.

We lived in different countries, our lives were on different trajectories, and the only thing we shared was a subject line in an email never meant for me.

I told myself it was harmless. That nothing could ever come from one small gesture of kindness.

I was wrong about that, too.

Jesy didn’t fall into my life all at once. She arrived in bytes and pixels, and the quiet anticipation of the next ping on my notification bar.

She had a husband. An absent one, and a careless one. But married is married, and she was off-limits. Not mine.

And yet, after a shared joke here, a small quip there, and too many late nights spent squinting at my screen, it was already too late to return to being strangers.

This isn’t a tale about fate, destiny, or love at first sight. It’s about how, in exchanging words, we unwittingly start a story that becomes our own.