"A rather loose ambition. 'What is rightfully yours.'" Which wasn't at all a critique. He knew all too well how those words could be twisted, changed to suit whatever was necessary at the time. "Still, keep out of Millicent's hair, and I'll have no reason to tell her more about you than you need to know."

He might be young and considerably weaker than many vampires, but he'd lived a very different life than most of them. He was used to not only politics but double-dealing. Playing one Circle off another, using magical influence to alter human government, too. He could play the game, certainly.