Chapter 1: A Room at the Top
The rain had finally stopped, but the city air still clung, cold and damp, to everything it touched. Celeste pulled her thin denim jacket tighter, the material doing little against the chill seeping up from the sidewalk. The suitcase wheels caught on a crack, and she stumbled, her heart giving a frantic lurch. This was the address. It had to be.
The building hunched between a shuttered bodega and a club throbbing with bass it hadn’t