|PART II OF THE STORY: THE PSYCHOPATH ON THE LOOSE|
20. Every damn second of this.
The night before.
Killian.
People’s naivety surprises me sometimes.
I watch with twisted satisfaction as the pathologist speaks, with Demyan interrogating him mercilessly. The man is half dead: tied up, electrocuted, and beaten to the point he can barely stay on his feet. Even so, he talks. He knows that, at the end of all this, a good reward will be waiting for him.
"Do you see, sir?" I say to Demyan. "Yuri was always the enemy."
Demyan Ivanov is a cowardly, gullible man, convinced of his own greatness. In reality, he is the smallest and most naïve man I have ever known. His blinding desire for power turns him into a frankly unbearable being, capable of falling for the first person who sweet-talks hi
