[Part of her wants to emotionally dump on him but she's pretty sure that would end up being exactly 27 years of emotional dumping and no one deserves that kind of a dump. That is a big dump.]

He's a sadistic monster. Literally and figuratively.

[She buries herself a little more in Adam's hold, completely aware talking about it more openly does little to immediately resolve all this pent up anger and angst.]

Scales, wings, long jaw, pointy teeth, sharp talons... all that. He's dangerous.