Devin had considered elaborating on why Abaddon might have been vague about things, but the disclosure about choice left him baffled. He had always considered this burden to have been thrust upon him unwillingly - an unwelcome and uninvited fate. If he had chosen it--

The vampire stood slowly, running his hands over his face as he paced away from the couch. It should have been a comparatively minor detail, but it was enough to turn the way he viewed the world inside out again.

"My choice," Devin murmured, wanting to refute it and finding himself unable to fully deny it. "Apparently I'm a bigger idiot than I thought."