Chapter 177

Beatrix's car pulled up to the small restaurant in Greenwich Village, far from the gleaming towers of Midtown where she now spent her days. The place looked unchanged from when she'd last visited, before the divorce, before Octavia, before she became someone else entirely.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come in?" Gideon asked from the driver's seat.

Beatrix shook her head. "This is