It's times like these that Armand viciously misses his ability to read Daniel's mind. Something clearly goes through it, but Armand can't tell what it is and he has no power to be able to soothe it or make it go away.

He's lost his control.

And yet, luckily, Daniel is quickly on his knees and all other thoughts flit away like migrating birds for Armand as he stands, smugly, and digs his fingers into Daniel's hair, looking down on him as he cocks his head to the side. "Would you have gone straight to sucking me?" he asks, calm and poised despite the dirty words. "I know what you did in the years after, but I wonder, what strategy a desperate man would have taken."