Summary

In Chapter 23, Milo invites Don to meet at Milo’s apartment. Milo then picks up Bernie from childcare. When Milo and Bernie arrive home, Don is waiting outside the building. Inside, Don and Milo begin to converse. Don says that Sasha left him. Don then talks lamentingly about being raised by a single mother with no college degree. Don claims that after Nathalie’s car accident and subsequent coma, Purdy paid for her to stay in an upscale hospital. However, when Purdy stopped paying, the comatose Nathalie died in a botched transit to a different facility. In Chapter 24, in the evening, Maura admits to having an affair with Paul. Milo and Maura are both uncertain whether or not they want their relationship to end. That night, Purdy calls Milo on the phone and rambles about his and Melinda’s birth preparations. It seems to...