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IT’S RAINING IN NEW York when Alex lands. Which is a blessing, because it gives him an excuse to wear a hat despite the season. Everyone on the streets is too miserable and harried to give him a second glance. He decides to walk down Broadway and into Soho, on streets he’s supposed to care about because he can afford to shop on them. He only feels any affection for them because some of the streets still have cobbles and haven’t come that far from the old shadow New York that’s been informing his choices since he shot Paradise. Alex doesn’t like New York, the city. But he’ll take New York the memory, and New York the ghost, and New York and all the strange witchery of everything that went down between him and Liam.
When he gets back to his room in the early evening, he calls Gemma and
