CHAPTER 71
Lary wakes up on her sofa in the same slacks and sweater she had worn on her visit to the charming Zidarevich sisters the night before. Her contacts are stuck to her irises. Something furry sleeps on her head. It is the visiting ER, her house guest while Howard and Felicity cruise the Nile. Timex nestles on her slippers.
Lary groans, her head feeling like a bag of marbles rolling from side to side.
A crunching sound comes from the floor. She turns her gaze slowly. Pizza is helping himself to bits of graham cracker crust from a cheesecake stuck with cigarette butts.
Vaguely she remembers being in a taxi. The driver had half-turned around to poke her with a pen. She was stretched out asleep across the back seat with Timex on her stomach, who was growling at the Bad Man.
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