After tidying up, Serena Stanton sent Adrian a message, asking when he'd be back; he replied that he was already on the way.
She scrolled through her phone out of boredom, recalling that Adrian had brought over the old things from when they were dating.
So she stood up and went straight into the study.
The old keepsakes weren't sealed in boxes, but neatly arranged out in the open, just like how their apartment had been laid out in England.
In the drawer of the cabinet, one full compartment was packed with her hairbands; the next held her MP3 player from high school.
Serena picked up the MP3 and tried to turn it on.
To her surprise, it still worked.
She set down the MP3 for now, and walked over to the rosewood bookshelf in search of an authoritative book on cross-border capital controls. Her fingertips slid across a row of hardbound spines, finally coming to rest on a heavy volume: Principles and Cases of International Business Law.
