Impulse and Control (3)

"It has been some time since we've had a meeting, Miss Durand and yet circumstances seem to go against us, doesn't it?" the silver-haired Vampire chuckled in a velvet tone.

He and his companion glanced at the roof and saw the rest of the Vampire officers running towards them, and yet they had already lost the other Vampire by a minute or two.

"Tsk. You're not worried about anything being stolen?" she asked him. While Iolathane Durand would have instantly ran after the strange Vampire, she didn't want to disrupt the meeting with the man before her.

…and she also didn't want to think about how the newcomer Vampire somehow stunned her for a moment to react properly. She could have pinned him down and stopped it all at once but failed to do so.

She hoped that the Argenti House didn't notice.

Luckily, it didn't seem like he did.