Last Call
Nobody realizes they’re falling in love, because almost nobody ever sees them together.
Ryan Cole’s firm is renovating Emily Parker’s aging school — and much of the work has to happen at night.
Emily frequently stays late preparing her classroom.
Their repeated encounters begin with “You’re still here?” and gradually become coffee, conversations, dinners eaten sitting in tiny classroom chairs — and a relationship neither of them planned.
Elementary-school teacher.
Architect.
Nobody realizes they’re falling in love, because almost nobody ever sees them together.
Then one night, he arrives at her emergency department as the patient.
A museum after closing, and two people it temporarily belongs to.
They’ve worked together for years. Timing has never cooperated — until now.