King Maybe
“Stinky needs to apologize frequently. At the time Ting Ting held pride of place as the Filipino houseboy who’d put up with Stinky longest. Eaglet was in Ronnie’s and my motel room when Ting Ting showed up with the flowers, and the attraction between the two was mutual, instant, and Shakespearean in scale. Ting Ting moved into Eaglet’s condo that very night, breaking what passed for Stinky’s heart forever, or at least until Jejomar crossed the blue Pacific and his sails hove into view.
Eagle...t’s condo was confirmation, if any was needed, that murder pays better than burglary. She was still a relative neophyte among LA hitters, and she already had a condo I put at a million-nine and rising, only about fourteen blocks from the Pacific, close enough to smell it and wipe salt off the furniture all the time. It was newer than tomorrow, with pale wooden floors and edgy, angular Danish Modern furniture that had all the heart of a Danish cookie. At the time I visited them, there had been a moment, after Ting Ting left the room to make us some tea, that Eaglet let the harmless hippie-dippie, retro-flower-child thing slip a little, on purpose, to give me a glimpse into the eyes of someone I shouldn’t even think about fucking with.MoreLess
Eagle...t’s condo was confirmation, if any was needed, that murder pays better than burglary. She was still a relative neophyte among LA hitters, and she already had a condo I put at a million-nine and rising, only about fourteen blocks from the Pacific, close enough to smell it and wipe salt off the furniture all the time. It was newer than tomorrow, with pale wooden floors and edgy, angular Danish Modern furniture that had all the heart of a Danish cookie. At the time I visited them, there had been a moment, after Ting Ting left the room to make us some tea, that Eaglet let the harmless hippie-dippie, retro-flower-child thing slip a little, on purpose, to give me a glimpse into the eyes of someone I shouldn’t even think about fucking with.MoreLess
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