Safe again

When Cullen first heard about Alister, he was thrilled. He knew he would never be able to top Alister but with his power and influence, he knew being in Alister's good graces were the best place to be. Unfortunately for Cullen, Alister found him profoundly useless. Since he carried the need to punish and kill his important prisoners himself, Cullen was stripped of any sense of control he had and his only job was assigning a small portion of guards to an even smaller portion of insignificant crimes that Alister didn't want to bother himself with. The fact that he used to be friends with Alister's dad also proved to be disadvantageous, especially after that stunt he pulled with Alister's mother.

It was then that Cullen had hit rock bottom. The power that drove him forward was not stepping on its breaks, reminding Cullen that Alister would never see him as anything more than the father of that girl he sometimes used.