“Caring was dangerous. Caring hurt.”
“Don't care, he reminded himself. Because if he didn't care she couldn't hurt him.”
“Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.”
“The man she’d glimpsed that morning, and the one who’d cared enough to put his arms around a packmate who was hurting, he was dangerous, someone who spoke to her soul beyond the primitive tug of sex.”
“Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.”
“I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.”