He only frowned a little when Dorian started arguing.  It was almost a pout, but then the man wasn’t giving him a very rewarding follow up to the lovely time they’d just experienced together.  But pleasure was always fleeting, so he decided against playing the insistent ass he knew he himself could be.  Kade didn’t even try to stop the other as he moved to sit up.  Perhaps he’d been softened into a more agreeable state by blood, sex, or the combination, or it could’ve been something as simple as the way Dorian had touched his face and called him beautiful.  Either way, the vampire was far less predatory and more like a lazy feline, stretching out and watching his intended prey with his calm, pale eyes.<br/><br/>The reasoning the followed seemed strange to him.  Dorian seemed to be alluding to some kind of hatred of his own job, of helping all those killers walk free.  If that was the case, why hadn’t he stopped long ago?  Was he really so trapped, or was it that he just felt he couldn’t go back?<br/><br/>Kade wanted to boast his own durability, his near invincible state.  Who could still a creature whose heart had already stopped a millennium ago with a bullet?  Who could possibly hold him against his will?  It would take a hunter, and a damned good one, not some broken survivor, parent, sibling, or lover… not a serial killer who thought he couldn’t be stopped.  But for some reason, Kade didn’t argue any of that.  What he wanted…<i>needed</i>to know was much more important than making a point.<br/><br/>“Anthony Palmer Haggard,” he said as Dorian tried to leave, staring at the man’s back.  “A previous client of yours.  Do you remember?  He stood accused of murdering several local college students, amongst others.  He was guilty… but you won your case, and he walked free.  I want to know…”  He paused there, for a brief moment remembering their faces.  Then he thought of Isaac, of the terror in the young man’s eyes when they were first reunited.  He had been traumatized, more than likely for life, which he would more than likely devote to Kade and remain at the club… a prisoner of fear.  “It wasn’t only murder.  It was torture and slaughter.  Why did you defend him?  You had to know when you met with him that he really was a killer.”