Maledetto: "Cursed" for Italian

Our Jewel

^^Alex Mckensie as Oliver Russo

CHAPTER 2

The different smells of many humans being carried along in the cold brisk air of Chicago's windy city made Kris hungry.

Very hungry...

Being a lone vampire in a big city wasn't a bright idea like her father had warned her.

Being sheltered in her home where their vampire coven was located in the middle of the snowy Siberian tundra was a place the young headstrong woman didn't wish to spend the rest of her life either.

However being able to eat whenever she felt like it back home seemed to be little more easier compared to the challenge she faced here.

They had human servants that allowed her and her family to feed from. The last time Kris ate was almost a week ago, and she was already feeling the painful withdraws of not feeding.

As the vampire walked down the busy sidewalk, Kris could see the hot breath come out each of the person mouth she passed by being carried away in the cold night air.

Her train of thought was lost as she walked passed a window of a store catching her reflection in it made her stop in her tracks.

"You look like shit..." the young redhead vampire lowly spoke in her native Russian tongue.

While tucking some of her long hair behind her ear and frowning at her sunken hungry and shabby appearance. Her mossy green eyes were not as vibrant as they could be now they were a bit darker and dull with ugly bags under them.

She wore some faded blue ripped at the knee jeans that hugged and showed off her nice sized hips and round firm bottom with a black long sleeve turtleneck and a matching pair of converse which looked older and more shabby than she appeared.

Kris sighed as her eyes tore away from the ugly picture of herself and pressed on down the sidewalk.

There was no time for window shopping as others would put it, she had a job to do and it was the only way to make sure she wasn't going to go hungry like this ever again.

A week prior Kris had made a deal with a local human gang leader in exchange for her skills he would provide her with blood...Lots of it.

"There is a  Jewelry store on Roxton and 4th Ave. They got this big rock worth almost 14 million. Get me that stone and you get all the blood your heart's desire.."

That was enough incentive for  vampire to agree to the terms whatever it may be.

Kris knew this would be easy enough for her, she had enough energy left in her to easily knock out a human guard then waltz her way in the store to retrieve the item.

Easy peasy right?

The Jewelry story coming up a half a block away, there was a side alley where the manager and security guard could park their cars with a back entrance to the store.

As she approached the back of the building is when she noticed a third car.

A Red Porsche...

Kris used this past week shortly after her deal to scope out the place and knew which cars belonged to the manager and security guard, what time the two men came in the morning and when they left at night.

It was well past 11pm, that was the stores closing time, and Kris has never seen this obnoxious colored car before.

Instead of entering through the back door like she had originally planned, the vampire went with her plan B.