Page 40 of Huntress Unleashed

“Was Lettie your best friend?” Stacey asked.

“Yeah, she isn’t worth another thought either.”

“She needs to be turned,” Stacey said.

Jacqueline smiled. “Wouldn’t Van be upset? And Lettie too.”

Stacey shook her head. “She wouldn’t be welcome in our meetings either. Not after betraying you and taking up with Van.”

Dane didn’t want Stacey bringing all this up if it was upsetting Jacqueline, but she didn’t seem bothered by it, for which he was thankful. He guessed it was such a relief to get rid of Heskel, nothing else mattered at the moment.

“See you at the club,” Adonis said, and he and his kin left in their van.

“See ya,” Stacey said.

Then Dane and his brothers and Jacqueline got into his truck.

“We’ll grab our bags from your house and head to our homes then,” Matt said.

“Yeah, and we’ll see you all at the club at five,” Trey said.

“Everyone did a great job. We need to go on more hunts like this as a group,” Ryan said, everyone agreeing.

Dane didn’t bring up Jacqueline returning to her house, but when he drove into his driveway, Matt said, “We can help you take all of Princess’s things to your place, Jacqueline.”

“You can just grab your own bags and I’ll help her,” Dane said to his brothers. “It won’t take any time at all.”

“Thanks to everyone for all your help with this,” she said.

“We wouldn’t have left you alone to deal with this on your own,” Dane said.

When they arrived at the house, his brothers helped him pack the cat’s things into her car while she was gathering her clothes upstairs. Dane really figured his brothers would just grab their own bags and leave, but they wanted to help more.

Dane figured he would just ride with her, help her get everything settled, and then use the vampire way to get back home. He had to keep practicing at it.

While Jacqueline was upstairs, Princess had gone up there with her.

“She needs time to be one with what she’s become, just like you need to before you get into a relationship that means forever,” Matt said to Dane.

His brothers didn’t understand that Dane and Jaqueline had a connection that no one else would have unless they’d been turned against their will. And both had lost their future mates over it.

Then again, Dane didn’t need to prove anything to his brothers. They would eventually see that he and Jacqueline were really suited to each other, hopefully for the long term.

“And then there’s Stacey,” Trey said, chuckling.

Smiling, Dane shook his head. The woman might be interested in him, but the feeling wasn’t mutual.

Then Jacqueline appeared next to her car with her bag in hand. He swore he would never get used to her vanishing and reappearing like that.

“We’re dressing formally for the club, right?” she asked.

“You better believe it.” Dane would love to see Jacqueline in a slinky gown, and he really wanted to dance with her.

“We’re dancing all the dances, right?” she asked Dane.

He smiled, but before he could say anything, Matt said, “I would be happy to dance with you when Dane gets tired.”

Dane quickly said, “I won’t get tired.” He wanted to be the only one dancing with her. On the other hand, it wouldn’t hurt for other hunters to see that his brothers, who were purely hunters, would be interested in being with her. Not that he really wanted anyone else to be with her. He realized how possessive he was already feeling about her, but still, for her own feelings of acceptance and fitting in, he wanted her to be able to dance with hunters and prove she wasn’t a blood-thirsty vampiress now. He would do anything to help her feel accepted by hunters again, if that was something she really needed.