He smirked slightly and stopped walking, putting his hands on her shoulders, "I am anything but monogamous, but when I set my sights on something, the only thing that could tear it away from me is divine intervention. If you think I'm a temperate being, you've assumed wrong. If you think that my emotions, as you see them, are anything but a ruse I put on to garner trust, I will show you otherwise. You will find that at the slightest hint of defiance, I will snuff it out." His gaze was beyond just cold, he did nothing to hide the fire underneath it, and the things he'd done. "I told you I was betrayed by my last lover, and I killed her for it."