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ARCHITECT OF YOU - BOOK II
Concrete Lines
Six months have passed since the look that never meant anything-and somehow meant everything.
Evan Brooks should be celebrating. His team just pulled off the impossible, winning a project everyone thought was already lost. The future finally looks bright.
So why does every victory seem to bring him closer to the one person he should keep his distance from?
Cole Shaw is still impossible to understand. Brilliant. Infuriating. The kind of man who can spend hours criticizing a parking garage and somehow leave Evan thinking about him long after the conversation ends.
A train ride home. A birthday neither of them quite acknowledges. A gift so small it should mean nothing-and yet refuses to leave Evan's hands.
The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the quiet moments hidden between deadlines, teasing remarks, and professional boundaries. And when admiration starts feeling dangerously close to something else, Evan is forced to confront a truth he's spent years avoiding.
Because some lines are drawn in concrete.
And some are slowly disappearing beneath his feet.
But if Shaw is finally stepping closer, why does it still feel like neither of them knows where the line ends?
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