That snapped Roxanne out of her kiss-wanting trance as she blinked a few times unsure if she had heard correctly. But of course she had. She had impeccable hearing after all.
"Weak?" She said, "No, my Lord, I would never—"
"No, no. You would," Caius said gently teasing her with a light touch of his lips to hers before he pulled away.
And then he smiled as he began to say,
"I can tell. You seek to be above the rest. It's not a bad wish to have. The problem you had though, was that the position of leader was already occupied by Kerwin. Hell, it was probably the gift of Vampirism he had granted you that roused these ambitions in you. After all, you now had eternity stretched in front of you and advantages your human self never had. Advantages only ever truly matched by your kind.
