Kiki was used to having her way, and it was true that her temper tantrums could sway many a man, but Vlad never was and never would be one of them. It was, perhaps, why he hadn't found her completely intolerable; but things had changed now. If Kiki thought she was going to be able to make either of them feel guilty, especially him, then she was sorely mistaken.
"As far as I know, Ella is fine - still shaken up, but better than she could have been." The elevator stopped at the third floor, which he was expecting, but he simply pressed the button and waited as it groaned into moving once more. "We still have no idea who did it. All we know is that whoever did it would have had reason to be angry about the fable list." Vlad didn't like the fact that they didn't know who it might have been - Vaughn would have been his first choice, but he knew it wasn't her.