I’ve seen him in his TV interviews before, but the beast is something else in real life. He’s a big lion, only a tiny bit taller than me and Scythe, at our six foot six. He wears an expensive navy three-piece suit over a body that’s broad and well-muscled enough to tell me he works out daily. His whiskey-coloured eyes are so sharp they don’t miss a single thing about the three of us, and I know that he’s made an assessment of our ferality in the space of seconds. That’s what Lyle is best known for: rehabilitating rabid—and even changed—beasts. It’s brutal and painstaking work, but his success
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