"I'm sorry for your loss." He isn't fooled by the lack of emotion. Not after an explanation like that. This lands close to this werewolf's heart, very clearly.

"I did what was necessary. Max's father would be destroyed either way. If I had let Max go home to him, they would have died together as a family. I do not enjoy bringing such pain to him, to any of them, but better breathing and in pain than dead. Even Max knows this. It was never about revenge for me. My sister truly was a monster and the world is better for her absence in it. It was she who dragged Max into our world. And, as usual, she left me to clean up her messes. I used vampire law as a tool to give Max his only chance to survive. You know nothing of our world. I would like to know how you think you could have done better?"