My name is Ethan Brooks. I was thirty-two, single, overworked, and exactly one promotion away from being able to afford a better apartment in Austin without pretending the cracked bathroom tile had “historic character.”
Clare and I worked at Larkin & Vale, a design-build firm that turned rich people’s bad ideas into expensive invoices.
She handled hospitality renovations: boutique hotels, resort lobbies, rooftop bars with $24 cocktails.
I handled commercial spaces: medical offices, tech campuses, bank branches, places where fluorescent lighting went to die.
For six months, we had been chasing the same promotion.
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