After years apart, I had long since shed the humble, submissive shell of someone who once accommodated everyone. My features had sharpened, my demeanor brisk and composed, radiating the honed edge of independence and resilience.
Deep down, an instinctive sense of familiarity surged through me, blurred, searing, and impossible to shake.
He must have sensed something too, yet he deliberately smothered whatever stirred inside him and adopted the mask of a detached foreign investor.
After stepping out of the car, he turned slightly toward his business associate and asked in a distant, flat tone, "That woman arranging the exhibits by the street, who is she?"
Before anyone else could answer, Serena beside him swept forward, her eyes laced with deliberate disdain and contempt as she spoke wit
