Apparently, the fact that Rowena “allegedly” killed Thomasina and “allegedly” almost killed Penelope Sidewinder didn’t play into Laura’s favor, nor did the fact that Rowena was sixteen, meaning she’d assaulted a child. Cangemi read her her rights with no little relish. Then Uncle Graham had slowly (to her) and methodically (to him) secured her release. She was approaching the train station and so very tired when Jeremy called.“You didn’t come,” he said. She heard noise and music on his end. Must be a party. Must be swell.“I was keeping Rowena Churchill from your show. I’m sorry.”“She was in a secondary set anyway. Where are you?”“Outside the Times Square Station.”“Meet me at my place, would you?”Twenty-Fourth Street and Second Avenue used to be a haven for drug addicts and prostitutes until the artists moved in during the 1970s with their plants and their handy habits and their eyes for making things pretty and nice. Jeremy had told her all about the place over five years of early-morning coffee.
