He let her rant. It was easier really. Let her get it all out and then maybe she'd try being sensible. Wouldn't do her any harm after all. He knew well what the sire bond meant. He'd been waiting for her to figure it out about Elena and Damon for so long before she had done. And with the Hybrids and Tyler. Well it was gratitude. Plain and simple. So he'd taken liberties with the fact. "Can you blame me for wanting to ensure loyalty?" he asked, his voice quiet, focused. "You know how things had been going, what your friends were willing to do? They were loyal to only me. And they were loyal because of what I had freed them from. You've never felt pain like that love, and you never want to. I freed them from that and in return I get more threats on my life?"
He'd worshipped him had he? Funny, he remembered it differently. Tyler fighting against the sire bond. Not wanting to hurt Caroline. Oh Klaus would never have let her die. Yes he'd endangered her. But he'd saved her too. And proven to her just how important her existance was.
"Want to know the difference? I never claimed innocence. Not in this, not in anything. Because you're right, I am the villain of the piece, never denied it. But you'll look into everyone elses reasons, the complexities of their lives but have you ever considered mine, or my families?"
He didn't bother to answer the last, there was no point, Tyler was not going to be her last love.
"You say you think I'm capable of good, of redemption, and yet you can't look at your friends and see that sometimes they're just as bad. Jeremy would have been fine, would have been healed by Kol, or by me if I'd been asked. Neither of us were about to kill a Hunter. But no, they killed my brother. And then Bonnie Bennett locked me in that house with his body for days. So you tell me why exactly I should want to emulate people like that."