Alex Chen arrived in Vancouver on a rainy Tuesday morning, and by Tuesday afternoon, Daniel Carter wanted to punch him in the throat.It wasn't rational. Daniel knew it wasn't rational. He sat on Aria's sofa with Maya on his lap, watching through the open studio door as Alex and Aria leaned together over the drafting table, their heads inches apart, their voices overlapping in a rapid exchange about cantilever tolerances and seismic load distributions. They'd been at it for three hours. Three hours of shared language, shared passion, and shared understanding of things Daniel would never fully grasp."You're staring again," Lena said.She had arrived from London two days earlier, supposedly to visit her niece, but mostly—Daniel was convinced—to witness her emotional breakdown. She was sitting in the armchair by the window, an open book on her lap that she hadn't turned a page on in twenty minutes."I'm not staring. I'm watching.""You're looking at Alex Chen as if you want to set him o
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