Page 36 of Huntress Unleashed
She smiled. “Yeah. Good.”
“Great?”
She chuckled. “Quit fishing.”
He rolled off her, pulled her into his arms, snuggled with her, and kissed the top of her head. “Great.”
After all they’d been through, for the first time since being turned and Van ditching her, she felt truly at peace and with a hunter who might even turn out to be the one for her. Only time would tell.
* * *
Early the next morning, Trey surprised Jacqueline when he came into the master bedroom to wake Dane and her before they were ready to wake. “Hey, I got information of where Heskel might be. Remember Zachary telling us that Rachael had killed Piaras at his estate? Several other rogues were also eliminated. The house was sold, and the proceeds went to the hunters who risked their lives to bring the rogues to justice. The house was sold to a human, but when I was doing some research, I discovered that she wasn’t truly the owner. She was given the money to purchase the property. Heskel was behind it all. We’re all gathering to go to the estate now to see if he’s there.”
“Uh, okay, thanks. We’ll join you downstairs,” Dane said, already getting out of bed, sans clothes.
Jacqueline was so hoping they would get the bastard this time. As soon as Trey was gone, she left the bed and hurried to grab her clothes out of a drawer and Dane’s closet. He’d been a sweetheart to give her so much room to sort out her clothes.
Dane was dressing and then once she was also, he hugged her. “We’ll get him.”
“I know we will. Either this day or another. We will.” Or one of the others would, though she wished she could take him down herself.
“About last night—" he said.
“I want a repeat tonight.”
Looking relieved, he said, “You got it.”
Then they gathered downstairs, and she was amused to see someone had gotten a big box of fresh donuts.
“Breakfast for champions, right?” she asked, snatching a chocolate icing covered one before the chocolate donuts were all gone.
Ryan laughed. “Yeah, when Trey said we wouldn’t have time to make a breakfast, I hurried off to get the donuts, hoping I got enough of a variety to make everyone happy.”
“All you needed to get was chocolate-covered ones,” Jacqueline said.
The brothers all smiled at her. Ryan said to Dane, “Looks like I need to make sure you both get enough then.”
“Who all is coming with us?” Dane grabbed one of the chocolate-iced donuts and smiled at Jacqueline.
“I called Zachary. He said his brother Michael, Adonis, and others would join us at the estate. Rachael wanted to, but Adonis’s and her baby girl is six weeks old so Rachael is nursing her and not hunting yet,” Ryan said.
“Oh, wow, okay,” Jacqueline said.
“I called Stacey. She’s meeting us there as well,” Dane said.
“Okay, so”—Jacqueline grabbed another chocolate-iced donut—“I’m ready.”
“Is that all the fortification you need?” Dane asked, getting her a cup of coffee.
She laughed. “Yes, that’s all I need.” Then she drank her coffee and Trey glanced at his watch.
“Let’s get armed. It’s time,” Matt said.
They all grabbed their swords, throwing stars, and daggers, and then they loaded up in Dane’s truck and headed out.
“Don’t go inside the building on your own,” Dane said to Jacqueline.
“I won’t.” She knew he was referring to her vanishing and reappearing next to the rogue vampires. But she wasn’t moving into the house on her own. She would wait until everyone was inside the house with her and then she would use her vampiric abilities to move to her advantage.