" She texted to say she was fine.”
“Then she is.” Impatient now.
“Just because she said she’s fine doesn’t mean she is, Gabriel.”
Silence. Ricky could imagine him struggling to process the possibility. There were guys in the gang who joked that Don had hired a cyborg who did a remarkably lifelike impersonation of an actual human. Gabriel wasn’t robotic. He just wasn’t exactly personable. Or emotionally literate. "
― Kelley Armstrong , Deceptions (Cainsville, #3)