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Jacqueline and her brother joined him there.

“She was inspecting my clean up,” Robert said.

“Did all the blood come off? I was worried we’d left it too long,” Dane said.

“Yeah. It didn’t look like anything had spilled out there at all,” Jacqueline said. “Okay, we need to move your car into the garage so that no one can see you loading up stuff like my suitcases. Moving the cat and her belongings wouldn’t be a problem. We just don’t want anyone to witness Dane carrying my suitcases out to his pickup truck. What would be up with that?”

“I agree,” Dane said, and headed back outside.

Robert opened the garage door.

Jacqueline stayed in the house while the guys packed up her bags and Princess and her things. Then Dane and Robert returned to the house.

“Okay, you call me if you need my help, just any time day or night,” Robert said, giving Jacqueline another hug. Dane smiled as he watched her and her brother coming together in friendship. Then Robert shook Dane’s hand. “You take care of her.”

“I’m taking care of him too,” she said.

“That’s a given,” Robert said.

Then she said to Dane, “I’ll meet you at your house.”

“I’ll lock things up here after you leave, Dane,” Robert said.

“Okay, we’ll talk later.”

Then Jacqueline vanished and arrived at Dane’s home. This wasn’t her home, and yet she felt good about being here. Maybe not one hundred percent because she didn’t have anything of her own here, but when Dane arrived with Princess and her clothes and personal items, she would feel more like she belonged here.

And then she remembered he had wanted to make this a permanent situation. She couldn’t have been more thrilled.

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Dane was so glad Jacqueline’s brother had come around. Hunter families were important in a hunter’s fight against rogue vampires and rogue hunters. But Dane was also glad Jacqueline was going to stay with him while they were trying to sort out the issue with these hunters. He drove into his garage and shut the door, and immediately, she was there, hugging him and he laughed. “I hope you feel totally at home here. I feel this is where you belong—with me, protecting me as I protect you.” He just held onto her, loving their connection, both emotionally and physically.

“I do. And when I’m wearing a ring, I guess we’ll have to put my house up for sale.”

“Yeah. If we want to live here.”

“Your house is bigger and has a pool, so definitely. It’s the party house.”

“With you staying here it, it is.”

Princess was standing in the driver’s seat, looking like she was being neglected. Jacqueline opened the driver’s door, took hold of Princess, and carried her into the house while Dane got Jacqueline’s bigger bags.

“You’ve already explored his whole house,” Jacqueline said to Princess.

Dane vanished and reappeared in his master bedroom carrying her bags. Then he was back to the car to get more of her things. She was already carrying Princess’s food and dishes into the house.

“What about our walk? Or do you think it’s too dangerous until the league members take those hunters into custody?” Jacqueline asked.

“I think it would be best if we stay here and give the hunters a chance to round up ‘X’ and his buddies. On the other hand, if we’re walking in the woods and encounter hunters who plan to eliminate us, we can just vanish,” Dane said.

“Unless one of them is an archer.”

“Hmm, okay, then we stay at the house. But we don’t have to feel cooped up here. We can visit the Bremertons at their compound. And we could even go walking through their woods there,” he said.

“I hate feeling like the hunters are putting restrictions on us, more so than they already have,” she said, putting her clothes away in his closet where he had quickly made room for her.

“Yeah, I agree. It sucks. I’ll get all of Princess’s stuff sorted.”