During a commercial break, about two hours later, Leon came back into the bathroom to relieve himself. He studied the lush, stretched body spread out helplessly over the bathtub; and, when he was finished and had flushed the toilet, Leon took a coil of white, nylon 550 parachute cord out of his pants pocket. He bent over Maryanne and tied one end of the cord to the vise grip on her left n****e and the other end to the right tool. Then he stretched the cord upwards slowly, forming a long V between the girl’s breasts and towards the shower curtain rod. With another short length of cord, he tied the V off at the rod, pulling hard enough so that the tools were now in a vertical position, and the tortured n*****s where stretched and pointing upwards as well. Maryanne groaned and shook her tape-

