BEg2 - ch 41 very brief summary (will revisit tomorrow)

[rich]

Thanks, Michael for the yeoman review of BE

rich

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 4:27 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The ladies get back to Manhattan, find Larday waiting at Tallis’s digs, she
> shows him the door fairly conclusively.
>
> Horst has been worried about her, not just jealous. Although he is jealous.
>
> Knockout blow to his insecurities - well, it would be if he thought about
> it & were sure she meant it:
>
> <There is nobody but you, Horst. Emotionally challenged fuckin ox. Never
> will be.”
>
>        One tiny unblocked Horstical receptor is able to pick up this
> message for what it is, so he doesn’t lapse totally into Midwest Ricky
> Ricardo after all“>
>
>
> There’s a jump cut via a description of the blip wreaked by the vircator
> test, and viola! we’re at Tallis & Avi’s place. Avi comes home glad of
> impending well-compensated layoff.
>
> Since March is also there, and squabbly, Maxine suggests the 3 ladies
> adjourn to more neutral chez Loeffler-Tarnow for takeout.
>
> Advising Horst it’s an all-girls night & that she’s taking the Impala, they
> head out to March’s place, which apparently she does still have,
> self-generated rumors of unhoused status notwithstanding.
>
> But then old Ice shows up to say he’s keeping their son & there’s a
> standoff with Maxine pulling the Beretta to cool his jets temporarily.
> March throwing curses & insults from the Impala, they pull away & spend the
> night sleeping in the car in the parking garage…just in case Ice is twice
> as murderous in the aftermath & has drones out after them
>
> in the AM Horst is crashing on the couch & she joins him - seeing her state
> of fatigue, Ziggy & Otis walk to school without her & she lets them.
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