Shadow Pact
What was the point of being obtuse about it?
“Do you kill people?" she asked bluntly, her voice almost a whisper. "Humans, I mean?”
A tight smile crept across his face and didn't reach his eyes. “You're safe with us,” was all he said.
She nodded almost absently. “So yes,” she mumbled. There was a heavy feeling of disappointment in her gut, but she refused to examine it. She needed to keep her distance from him. She could never be involved with someone who killed people, no matter how attracted to him she was. He was a killer, and she needed to remember that.