" You don’t know me,” Aidan told her, his voice almost a caress. “You’ve never met me.” A real shame. Because he was sure that they could have enjoyed the hell out of each other. “Go back to sleep.”
Her lips trembled. “But the monsters are waiting.”
What? His gut clenched. “No monsters are going to get you. Trust me on that one.”
The trembling left her lips, and for an instant, it almost looked as if she were smiling. “Silly…I don’t trust…anyone…” Her breath sighed out and her eyes closed.
He smoothed her hair away from her face. Her wound was already healing. She was—
“Uh, yeah, are you gonna hold her hand all night? "

― Cynthia Eden , Bite the Dust (Blood and Moonlight, #1)