The Potomac Penthouse

The midnight sky over the Potomac River was a heavy, liquid charcoal bruised by the distant amber glow of the Washington, D.C. monuments. Outside the soaring floor-to-ceiling panoramic windows of the private executive penthouse in Georgetown, a freezing autumn rain misted against the triple-glazed glass, blurring the distant silhouette of the Kennedy Center and the illuminated spire of the Washington Monument. Inside the two-story penthouse, the atmosphere was a study…