Second Bloom
He arrives at the apartment Thursday evening and finds Valentina working at the kitchen table and Ethan on a call in the second bedroom, and sits down across from her with the ease of someone who has been in this apartment before, which he hasn't, but which is a Daniel quality.
"You're finishing something," he says.
"The Girona textile brief," she says. "Thirty minutes."
"I'll make tea."
He makes tea — chamomile, which he finds without being told where it is, because the chamomile is in the obvious place and Daniel Cole notices where things are — and sits with his own cup and reads something on his phone without interrupting her, which is a skill rarer than it sounds.
Thirty-two minutes late
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