OWEN'S POV
I haven't been getting good sleep.
Each morning I arrived at the office earlier than the last not to work but to sit in silence pretending everything was under control. But the reality was, that day changed me. I hadn't stop thinking about Zoe’s trembling voice when she spoke to me, her hands covered in blood and the fear in her eyes. Alexis’s voice kept replaying in my head too “Do you really believe I would get locked up here?”
So when I opened the door and saw Zoe there I was frozen in shock.
She sat at her desk going through papers like nothing was wrong. I caught my breath. I wasn’t sure if she was real. But she looked up and smiled.
“Morning,” she said softly.
I was still staring.
She looked... better. Not like before all of this began, but not broken either. Her
