" What are you doing here, Signorina…?” He trailed off, waiting for her to provide her name.
“Caravello. Cassandra,” she said distractedly, her mind consumed by shadows, by faceless corpses and killers hiding in the dark.
“Cassandra,” he repeated, as though her name pleased him. “So. Did I interrupt something? A sordid little tryst, perhaps?”
“You must be joking.” Cass was in no mood for humor. Besides, the closest she’d ever been to a tryst was when he’d fallen on top of her in the street earlier that day. "

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