New York City. March 12, 2014. Addie heads uptown, reading
The Odyssey as she walks. She’s nearly at the Baxter when she sees
James St. Clair 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.
Sam, 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.