The Vampire's Kitten

'Damn these humans, must they be always such obnoxious creatures?' I thought as I parked my all black Aston Martin in the parking space reserved for me. As was the same for every morning, there were dozens of women standing around my parking space, waiting for me. Every day they would reveal more of themselves and their unappealing flesh to me, in the foolish hopes that I would bed them.

I sighed heavily before pushing the door open and stepping out, immediately making a beeline for the front door, ignoring the women as I did every morning. They never seemed to comprehend that I wouldn't some day magically want them, despite the amount of skin they showed me.

As I looked forward, my attention was drawn by a young girl on the front steps of my building, fighting the wind to gather her papers as they were being strewn about. She was beautiful with long black hair down to her hips, her skin resembling porcelain perfection, but the thing that really caught my eye, was her eyes. She had the most bewitching eyes I'd ever seen, a darker shade of yellow, shining like pure gold under her long dark lashes. If I didn't know any better, I'd say this girl was a cat in human form. Although she was losing the fight against the wind, her every movement was graceful, her long black hair soft and seemingly unbothered by the wind as it remained still along her back.

The sounds of the women surrounding me brought me out of my thoughts as I growled internally, and shoved the door open to the building, keeping my pace as I went into my elevator and pressed the button for the top floor. It wasn't until the doors shut that I could enjoy a moment of silence, as was how my days went almost every day. The drive here, and the elevator ride to my office were the only peace I would be granted for the majority of my days.

"Good morning, Alaric. How was your morning?" William asked me the moment the elevator doors opened, his brown eyes gleaming with a devious smile as he greeted me. He knew exactly how my morning went, as it rarely changed.

"Don't patronize me, William." I snarled to him, walking past him and into my office where I was greeted by stacks of papers on my desk, awaiting my immediate attention.

"Yes Sir. I've your itinerary for the day." William said as he began droning on, informing me of what I needed to do today, as if he wouldn't be by my side for the majority of the day and reminding me throughout as he did every day.

I zoned him out as my thoughts went back to the girl on the front steps not long ago, wondering why I'd never seen her before. I know I'd remember her, especially with those eyes, but I couldn't recall ever seeing her before. So I opened my laptop and clicked through the new employee files until I found her. Mercy Smith. The picture taken for her intern badge did her no justice, and was nothing compared to the girl I saw only minutes ago. I clicked on her file and began reading through the file HR had for her, trying to sate my ever-growing curiosity. She was eighteen years old, and hired as an intent in the design department to work under Mrs. Cho, the old crow on the sixteenth floor.

'Mercy, what a beautiful but unconventional name.' I thought as I finished reading through her file, then went back to her picture. 'A unconventional name for a very unconventional girl.'

"Sir?" William asked, trying to bring my attention back to him as he realized I hadn't been listening to him, but rather engrossed with what I was looking at. He stepped around the desk to look at my screen, and nodded when he saw what I was looking at. "Oh, Mercy? She's a nice young lady."

I turned around to face him as he said this, narrowing my eyes at the man. "You've met her?"

"Yes, Sir. She came up yesterday to drop off some proofs from the design department." He said quickly, his eyes widening in confusion and surprise.

I nodded and turned back around, looking at the girl once more before closing the lid on my computer, sighing as I motioned to the stack of papers before me. "What's all this, then?"

"Requisition notices requiring your signature, Sir." William said as he took a small section off of what may have been hundreds, before setting them in front of me.

"And what will I be requisitioning?" I asked him absentmindedly as I began signing the papers, one by one.

"Victor's share of Jag Co. These are for all the departments he headed, as well as the projects those departments were working on." William explained as he went to the door, before turning around to look at me once more. "What would you like for lunch, Sir?"

I paused for a moment, considering this. "AB positive, William." I said before returning to my paperwork, scanning through the pages quickly before signing them. After William closed the door, I opened the laptop and opened the security camera's on the sixteenth floor, scanning through them until I found the girl who'd managed to imprint herself in my thoughts, without even looking at me. Mercy Smith. I found her relatively quickly as she was easily distinguishable from the other women in her department, despite the fact that the design department was one of our biggest, and had over 100 security cameras.

Mercy was sitting at her desk, her head bowed as she worked on something I couldn't quite make out from the camera, but I didn't entirely care what she was working on. I just wanted to see her, much to my own confusion as I'd never been interested in a human before. Not once in my over three centuries have I ever considered a human as anything more than my next meal.

'Why am I so infatuated with you, mercy?' I thought as I watched her as she moved about her small office, seemingly unable to remain still for a long period of time. 'I may have to make you mine if you remain in my thoughts, kitten.'