"I thought maybe it wasn't Fandom, this time. That one of your family's enemies had perhaps decided to take revenge in a particularly maddening way," Liam confessed. As he spoke, his hands ran up her back, and then back down her arms, as if he was reassuring himself that she was in fact hale and whole and human.

... Were those Dominic's speech patterns he was emulating just a bit there? Maaaaaaybe.