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Two rivals. One city. Ninety days to either build a future or destroy their careers.
Jemima is the heart of Apex Urban Solutions, a strategist who believes cities should serve people, not profit.
Eleazar is the firm's steel skeleton, a technical genius who trusts numbers over vision and calls emotion inefficient.
They have disagreed on everything for three years.
Now, their Managing Director forces them to co-lead the most important project of their careers... from the same tiny office.
Late nights. Shared tables. Competing blueprints.
What begins as professional warfare slowly shifts into something neither of them intended.
Then a devastating accident involving Jemima's father shatters her world, and the woman who holds everyone else together begins to fall apart.
In the silence of a 10 PM phone call, the line between colleague and confidant breaks.
Because some foundations are not made of concrete and steel.
They are built when you let someone help you carry the load.
A grounded slow-burn office romance about rivalry, vulnerability, and the fragile bridges built between two guarded hearts.