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Chapter 4 The elevator at Monteiro Tech had thirty floors and a camera in the upper-left corner that blinked a red light every five seconds. Fábio knew this because he had counted. Three times. In the...

The café was called Grão Verso. Fábio discovered it on his second day as an intern, when he got off the subway ten minutes early and decided to walk around the block instead of heading straight to the...

The alarm went off at 6:12 a.m. Not 6:15, as Fábio had intended, because he’d set it incorrectly the night before—too nervous to get anything right, including his own fingers. He sat up in bed and sta...

The humid heat of August rose like steam, and the sea breeze from Victoria Harbour swept through Central, carrying the briny scent of the water. Tang Yu had just stepped out of the taxi when a wave of...

Ji Qian’ang stopped walking. The corridor stayed silent for so long that Tang Yu almost began to regret speaking. Then the person across from him answered, “I can.” The tightness in Tang Yu’s chest lo...

The basketball had shattered the frame of Ji Qian’ang’s glasses, and the broken pieces had pierced his left eye. Ji Qian’ang bent over, covering his eye with one hand. Blood seeped through his fingers...

Chapter 3: Three Weeks to Impress Him Marina Lopes walked into the interns’ room at nine on a Monday morning with the kind of energy that made everyone sit up straighter in their chairs. “Good morning...