Aside from the anger that he'd realized, there had been something else that clicked in that moment. The fear, that look they all got when they realized maybe they'd gone too far. If he were honest, it was normally a look he tended to get a lot of kicks from, but it had hit him just right at the time and that was why he'd backed off the way he had.
"Yeah, thanks." was all he really knew to say in that moment. How did you properly thank someone from a potental lifetime of, well, nothingness? Kol had no idea, so that mumbled little appreciation was all she was probably going to get. "I won't. I don't... I fucking hate it, Lexi. I swore I'd never do that again after that one time." Now that he wasn't so against her getting one over on him, he could admit that with no problem.
He watched her as she leaned back against the pillar and nodded, "Yeah, I know." Feelings back on or not, it wasn't something he wanted to talk about. She was right. So fucking right. He was always in Nik's shadow.