But if peace reigned inside the camp, the surroundings were an entirely different story.
…
"Mind telling me what exactly you're trying to do?" Rose said, crossing her arms and looking at Alice with a mocking smile.
"I could ask you the same thing," Alice replied with hostility.
And twenty meters away, leaning against a tree with her arms crossed, Yuki watched them.
'…So childish,' Yuki thought as she let out a sigh and walked away, leaving those two to sort out their problems.
The silence between Rose and Alice stretched for several seconds after Yuki walked back to her patrol.
But it wasn't a comfortable silence, in this case it was the silence that precedes a storm.
Alice was the first to speak.
"How is it possible?"
"How is what possible?" Rose replied.
Alice raised her gaze and fixed her eyes on Rose with an intensity that made the vampire's smile waver for a fraction of a second before recovering.
"How is it possible that he prefers you?" Alice said finally.
