The Way You Made Me Feel

[Dangerous Era]

Vienna had always been the best in her own league.

After winning a "top-secret" contest that traveled from country to country across Europe, she never could have imagined that the prize would bring her face-to-face with her childhood best friend again, decades after they had been torn apart.

Everything that happened between them when they were younger feels like a fever dream now; When Vienna's mother received a job offer in Romania, she had no choice but to leave behind the life she knew in California.

Before that, Vienna and Michael had been inseparable ever since he moved to Hayvenhurst at twelve. They were so close that Michael had even imagined marrying her when they turned eighteen.

Then, without warning, Vienna disappeared from his life.

Her absence left a hollow ache in his chest, one that never quite faded. Whenever someone in his family asked where Vienna had gone, he was forced to face the same painful truth.

He didn't know either.

All he had left of her was a small gold chain, something he kept close enough to remind him that she had once existed.

But time had stolen the most important thing of all.

Her face.