>>24551809
Or try this one. (Some people will think of Ned Beaumont as an out-and-out good guy but he really isn't. He's the right-hand-man for a crime boss and he does a few dodgy things for sure.)

They rode in a taxicab to his rooms. For most of the ride they were silent. Once she said suddenly: "In that dream – I didn't tell you – the key was glass and shattered in our hands just as we got the door open, because the lock was stiff and we had to force it."

He looked sidewise at her and asked: "Well?"

She shivered. "We couldn't lock the snakes in and they came out all over us and I woke up screaming."