Ilya nodded. he reached for her hand and held it firmly in his, palm to palm, his thumb brushing across her knuckles. "I have no right to hold anything you've done in the past against you. Everything we are, everything we do, makes us who we are today. I've a confession as well. I was born in 1871. I believe my father was probably a vampire. I don't know for certain, I never met him and my mother refused to talk about the circumstances of my conception."