ZOE’S POV
My heels clicked softly on the floor as Owen and I stepped into Austin’s office building. It had been years but somehow everything still looked almost the same. The air felt familiar. The walls, the furniture, all of it pulled at a corner of my memory I’d sealed off long ago.
We were here for a meeting with an investor, yet my heart beat faster than it should have. Maybe it was the memories, maybe it was what I knew and what Austin didn’t. Either way, I wasn’t just here to discuss business today.
Owen glanced sideways at me. “You okay?”
I took a moment to respond. I looked around the room, my old desk is now someone else’s. A place I once sat with dreams in my head and a secret in my heart. I felt like my old self.
“Yeah,” I finally said clearing my throat. “I just didn’t t
