" She took a step toward the gondola. “I want to go.”
Falco grinned. “I knew you would.”
Cass paused, her hand on the side of the boat. She looked up at Falco. “Why is that?”
This time, he definitely winked. “Not every girl likes to wander through graveyards in the middle of the night.”
“I guess I’m not every girl,” Cass said, allowing him to take her hand and gently assist her into the gondola.
An indecipherable look flashed across Falco’s tan face for just a second. Then he smiled. “No, Signorina,” he said. “You are definitely not. You’re different, and I like it.”
Cass couldn’t help but think that Falco, with his teasing manner and bizarre beliefs about life and death, was also quite different.
And she, too, liked it. "

― Fiona Paul , Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1)