Bloody roses

6: Destination

Then, one day, she finally arrived in Paris. The city was huge, bigger than every town she had seen before. Lacrimă let her bat check the surroundings and went to find her first victim. Well, she did not exactly find one. She got found.
A man approached her. He was heavily drunk, unable to walk properly, and looking for a pretty face to satisfy himself. When he encountered the woman in a dark alley, he was instantly struck by her beauty. Immediately, he pinned her against the wall. “Hey there, pretty. Up for some fun?” Indeed, she was up for fun, but a different type. When he leaned in to kiss her, the vampiress lifted him up by his jaw and drank. Until she got interrupted, that is.

“John! You still owe me for the last round!” someone yelled, apparently looking for the man. The bat was going wild, too, clicking loudly to wake Lacrimă from her bloodthirsty daze. Without success, that is. “By Jove, what’s going on here?!” The man proceeded to try and rip John from the mysterious vampiress’ grasp. 
That caused Lacrimă to fall out of her bloodlust, and she lifted her head. They just stared at one another.
After a few moments, she noticed something off about the man. He did not seem to be human but also not a Greater Vampire. As soon as she had noticed that, Lacrimă let her prey go and took off, jumping over roofs desperate to run. She did not know the lesser vampire, but she knew that, if there were more, they could overpower her and she was keen on enjoying her freedom and not getting locked up for intruding in foreign hunting grounds. She knew he did not belong to the grandfather mentioned, as she could sense the involvement of her family. Had Mihnea been wrong with telling her he lived here?
“Hey luv, wait! I’m not gonna hurt you, I swear.” The man yelled. Lacrimă ignored him and kept running. And running. She was not terrified of the lesser vampire but of his sire. And the consequences she would have to face.