Léon reluctantly agrees, seduce-rapes him and starts to feed on him...then hesitates, which gives Franz just enough time to begin to turn. And that is a huge mistake. Now he cannot be killed.
Franz is beautiful, but he's also demonic. He held his true nature in check thanks to his breeding and military training. But now that he's a Blood Angel, all sense of morality and manners is gone, gone, gone, and he becomes a cold, cruel, calculating beast. More on the level of Léon's sister, Gabrielle, and exactly what the Oiym feared he would be.
They had set up a number of rules as safety measures in the vampire world, in order keep the human world from really noticing them. His casual disregard for those rules threatens to wreck everything. It's up to Léon to find a way to control him before the Oiym come after him to imprison him in Alexandria.
Only the man is infuriated with Léon over having forced himself on him. So he taunts Léon by terrorizing and killing men who resemble him, and he flouts the Oiym's rules, as if daring them to stop him. What can Léon do? If Franz goes to jail, so does Léon since he started the problem.
This part of the story is going to be very dark. I know my version of darkness is far lighter than many other writers, but we'll see what happens. I've already got a confrontation between Léon and Franz at the end that I am going to make myself let be as horrific as possible. Franz might not be able to die, nor can Léon or his pack, but anyone else around them can.
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