Chapter 3
The taxi moved steadily through the night and consistent grid of city streets. There seemed to be fewer traffic lights turning red at this hour and they made wonderful timing snaking through the one-way streets and over to the West Side. At the end of the day, Manhattan was still an island and you’d eventually reach the water on one side or the other.
Lillianna liked living on the West Side of Manhattan and always having a certain degree of proximity to the sea. The sea seemed to symbolize freedom to her. There was that sense of openness, which felt so essential in comparison to the deep skyscraper-lined canyons of Manhattan that now made up so much of her world.
Near her condo was Pier 59 where the Titanic was originally supposed to have docked in 1912. It was also there that
