Chapter 176

Camille’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 Victoria, before she became someone else entirely.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to come in?” Alexander asked from the driver’s seat.

Camille shook her head. “This is something I need to do alone.”

“Call if you need me,” he said, squeezing her hand. “I’ll be twenty minutes away.”

She nodded, gathering her courage before stepping onto the sidewalk. Through the restaurant window, she could already see them—Margaret and Richard Lewis. Her parents. Waiting at a corner table, her mother nervously rearranging silverware, her father checking his watch.

This marked the first time they would meet without Victoria’s watchful presence since their cautious reunion months ago. No buffers. No mediators. Just three people trying to rebuild what y