Chapter 44
‘Stay with us, Mr Evans. You have sins to atone for. If I had to choose whether to face her here or face her in the next life, I’d pick here, so if I were you I would hold on until the ambulance arrives. It shouldn’t be long. The Angel of Death will want to have words with you whatever you decide, just ask Alex Beckinsale. He knows.’
Sergeant Loxwood kept up a steady stream of calm-sounding drivel as he had been trained to do with victims of trauma. Perhaps not the most reassuring drivel but it was far more professional than what he felt like saying. He bent over to peer more closely at the wound.
‘If you remove the knife it will bleed very quickly and without a method of healing he will not remain awake for long,’ Dallmin stated dryly, peering over his shoulder. The gruesome
