"I...didn't know, at the time, that...Susan's turning wasn't complete, so...yeah. I lost it, saw red I guess you could say, and I burned her fucking house down, along with her and her retinue. The Red Court didn't take kindly to a countess being offed by a representative of the White Council, so...here we are."

And they'd never moved on. Vampires were touchy that way. Things with the Courts and the Council had been heating up for a long time, it was just the catalyst they'd needed to start up open hostilities, but he couldn't deny the role he played in it.