New York City. March 12, 2014. heads uptown, reading
The Odyssey as she walks. She’s nearly at the Baxter when she sees emerge from a black sedan. She’ll have to find somewhere else to stay the night. Addie heads toward the East Village instead. She approaches a building and smiles at a man who is exiting; he holds the door open for her, and she slips inside. Addie walks up four flights of stairs and finds a silver key above a steel door that opens onto the building’s rooftop. , one of Addie’s former lovers, showed her this. Sam was acting on impulse that night, but Addie had been seeing Sam for two months by that point. It was a passionate affair—but then, passionate affairs are all Addie can have.