[He stares back flatly for a beat, unimpressed by the look he had earned.]

But one man escaped his debt when he disappeared one morning and never returned.

[Turning his attention to his feet, he stoops over to loosen the long column of belts along the side of each of his boot and it’s slow work even for his clever fingers. Abel keeps a critical eye on her all the while, fangs gleaming behind its curling upper lip. But for all its dislike of strangers, especially, it hasn’t any choice but to grimly tolerate the company she shares with its master. Isaac’s control is unyielding and its own irresistible compulsion to obey allows for no accidents. And so, as a savage devil forged and lusting for battle, it can only wait restlessly until given reason to draw blood however it can.]

I have no intentions of making the same mistake twice... be it with a man or a woman.