A Call from Twelve Years Ahead

Summary

Right before graduation, just hours before I was scheduled to sign on as the first employee at my boyfriend’s startup, I received a phone call from myself—twelve years in the future.

I gripped the phone, my voice breathless with eager anticipation. "Tell me—did he make it? Did Austin actually build his empire?"

The woman on the other end gave a soft, hollow laugh. "He made it. Took the company public at thirty-two. By thirty-five, his net worth crossed the ten-billion-dollar mark."