If he was looking for a way to change her tune, he'd found it. Buffy tensed, fear flickering in her eyes for the first time since she'd entered his domain. It wasn't of course for her own sake, but the realization that she'd been endangering Ambrose the moment she'd told him what she was struck her. How quickly it took to turn that into anger...
"Don't threaten him. He's got nothing to do with this. He doesn't even know," she tried to lie, her fists clenched at her side.
"I can't win. Maybe. But maybe I can find a way. So long as there are maybes, I won't stop trying." Buffy looked him right in the eye, spreading her arms as if to beckon him. "And I don't believe that you'd hurt me. So convince me. Convince me that you're gone completely."