The Heart Forgets Nothing: A Journey from Ashes to Light

Book 2 of: The Journey Series

At twenty-eight, Angel Zayas-Smith steps into the role of CEO at Zayas Enterprises with the kind of focus that makes silence feel deliberate.
Jadziel Zayas was fire...brilliant, intense, unforgettable. Angel is steel. Quiet. Controlled. Steady.
He doesn't raise his voice.
He doesn't flinch.
But strength, he's learning, doesn't always come from boardrooms or clean contracts. Sometimes it comes from facing what you broke.
Angel keeps his circle small. His trust is even smaller.
From Isaack, his father and the heart behind Per Ardua, Angel learned how to care without rushing. How to listen. How to let silence do the work.
From Jadziel, his CEO father, he learned how to lead. How to hold a room. How to survive in places that don't wait for softness.
From his younger brother, Isadiel, Angel sees something steady. A reminder of family. Of what still feels real. He doesn't say much about it, but the bond is there. Quiet. Solid. Important.
Judge Rex, his old stuffed dinosaur, still sits on a shelf in his bedroom. Not for show. Just because it's his. A piece of who he was before things got complicated.
So when his ex-best friend Thomas (Tommy) Hardling shows up again after seven years, the shift isn't dramatic.
It's quiet.
It's slow.
But it's real.
And it starts to crack the armor Angel thought would hold.