Vibe Check
An Opposites Attract Sapphic Romance
by Isla Wilde
Pairing: FF
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Opposites Attract, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Touch Starved, Praise Kink
She built a machine to simulate human touch because she was afraid to ask for the real thing.
Sloane Chen is a brilliant tech founder with a problem: her revolutionary haptic device needs real-world testing, and she needs a human subject. She doesn’t do people. She does data points, algorithms, and carefully controlled environments. Her lab is her sanctuary. Feelings are just bugs in the code.
She doesn’t expect Junie Delgado.
Junie is the yoga instructor in the studio next door—all sunshine smiles, crystal energy, and chaos that makes Sloane’s eye twitch. She reads tarot cards. She believes in astrology. She has seventeen plants named after Greek gods and a cat who judges everyone.
When a broken window throws them together, Junie agrees to be Sloane’s test subject. It’s just science. Clinical trials. Professional distance.
Except the device is designed to simulate intimacy. And every calibration session blurs the lines between data and desire. Sloane’s sensors are reading exactly what Junie feels when she’s touched—and Sloane can’t stop watching. Can’t stop wanting. Can’t stop cataloguing every gasp, every shiver, every response that her algorithms say should be impossible.
But Sloane has a startup to save and parents to prove wrong. Junie has an eviction notice and a past that taught her not to trust anyone who runs from their feelings. And the device Sloane built to avoid human connection might be the only thing that can teach her how to make one.
When the data says they’re incompatible but every touch says otherwise, will Sloane trust her algorithms—or her heart?
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✓ Opposites attract (grumpy engineer / sunshine yoga teacher)
✓ “For science” becoming very personal
✓ Touch-starved heroines learning to feel
✓ Forced proximity with one thin wall
✓ Praise kink and explicit sapphic heat
✓ Found family and creative partnership
✓ Grand gesture with 200 sunflowers
✓ Guaranteed HEA with epilogue
⚠️ Content Warning
This book contains explicit FF sexual content including praise kink, orgasm control, haptic device experimentation, body worship, and emotional vulnerability during intimacy. Themes include family estrangement, past relationship trauma, touch deprivation, anxiety representation, and financial instability. Both heroines reclaim their autonomy and find their HEA.
Reader discretion advised. This book is intended for mature audiences only.
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Chapter One
The solder wouldn’t take.
Sloane adjusted her magnification goggles, bringing the circuit board into crystalline focus, and tried again. Steady hands. Controlled breathing. The iron tip kissed the copper trace, and for one perfect moment, the silver bead of solder flowed exactly where she wanted it.
Then it beaded up and rolled off like water on wax.
“Contaminated,” she muttered, setting down the iron with more force than necessary. Oxidation on the trace, probably. She’d have to clean it, reapply flux, start over. Again.
The 3D printer in the corner hummed its agreement, extruding layer after patient layer of a prototype housing she’d designed three iterations ago. The sound was almost meditative—a mechanical lullaby that had become the soundtrack of her life. Whirr-click. Whirr-click. The printer didn’t judge. It didn’t ask questions. It just built what she told it to build, one 0.2-millimeter layer at a time.
Sloane pushed back from her workbench and rubbed her eyes beneath the goggles. The blue-white glow of her LED strips made everything look clinical, which was the point. Clean. Controlled. Safe.
She checked the time on her phone: 4:47 PM. Her stomach reminded her that lunch had been a protein bar at 11, eaten standing up while reviewing thermal dissipation calculations. She should eat something real. She should also sleep more than four hours, drink something other than cold brew, and maybe talk to another human being at least once a day.
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“The Calibration” — A 4,000-word exclusive bonus scene
One year after the epilogue. Sloane has a new prototype—designed specifically for couples. Junie volunteers to help test it. Features haptic sensation play, remote control teasing, edging, and the kind of worship that short-circuits all rational thought. This scene didn’t make it into the book.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this book part of a series?
Vibe Check is a complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA. It features a satisfying ending with an epilogue showing Sloane and Junie’s life together six months later. No cliffhangers!
How spicy is this book?
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — This is a 5/5 heat level book with 8 explicit scenes throughout. Features include haptic device play, praise kink, orgasm control, body worship, and touch-starved intimacy. All scenes feature enthusiastic consent and emotional vulnerability.
Is there a happily ever after?
Absolutely! Sloane and Junie get their HEA with a beautiful epilogue set six months later. Sloane’s startup gets funded, Junie’s yoga studio thrives, and they build a life together that proves real connection beats any algorithm. No cheating, no cliffhangers, just two women who learn to let their walls down.
What’s a haptic device?
Haptic technology creates the sensation of touch through vibrations, pressure, and temperature changes. In this book, Sloane builds a device designed to help touch-deprived people feel human connection. The research sessions between Sloane and Junie blur the line between clinical testing and intimate exploration—and that’s where things get interesting.
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