Another lifetime perhaps. But they had been what they had needed of each other—as much as they could be—at the time and that had been enough. They had parted better than most did. Certainly better than Amadeus had parted with his own sire when it came clear that he could not offer her what she wanted from him and that was before he had a reason to be so untouchable.
There was a beat of silence there as that sunk in and then Amadeus laughed. Of course, she had done such a thing. "The rate things are going in this city, I am not going to discount that and say it's more force than necessary." Because the Sheriff couldn't say that he still wasn't against just letting it all burn.