Trapped with the squirming corpses on the boiler room floor, he’d been ready to give up. A few more seconds would have been enough for him to undo the knot and allow himself to be pulled ever deeper into the endless silty floor. He would have breathed his last there, clasped in a deathly embrace that would never ever let him go. He’d believed he was finished. But apparently, Vanna wasn’t ready to give up on him yet.
