My Violent Heart

[Reeves]

His answer was telegraphed by how he looked at her prior to actually answering. "Still hate most people I meet, stopped using people when I realized I could just kill them instead. Still, there's a few I tolerate and some I even respect." It was a simple and honest answer, he felt no need to sugarcoat things, lies took too long in cases like this and weren't worth the effort. Especially not when the truth was far more liberating than any other fabricated line of thought could ever be.

"Worried you're just a momentary fascination to me?" Apparently being direct, even to the extent of asking extremely blunt questions, wasn't unique to her.