If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said. 'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.

He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck

The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.

You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(...)

Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was...dangerous.