Page 83 of Huntress Unleashed

Then Jacqueline took Dane into her arms and held him tight, never wanting to let go. She couldn’t believe there had been so many hunters who had wanted them dead. What was wrong with them? The hunters turned had only been after rogue vampires. They hadn’t once hurt a hunter. Not even one who was a rogue. Not until now.

They had no worry about killing the ones here that they did. Not when they were defending themselves against the threat on Dane’s property and they had other hunters who had witnessed the fight.

This would hopefully prove that hunters and those who were turned would stick together to fight against the hunters who thought to kill those who were now vampires.

The police were also called. Ambulances arrived, and the EMTs took care of the two injured hunters. Tobias finally arrived. “Has everyone been identified?”

“Yeah,” Matt said. “We have their IDs.”

“All right. We’ll take the ones still alive in for questioning to learn if there are any others that have the same mission as these hunters,” Tobias said.

“I can’t believe you didn’t kill me or the others who you gained the upper hand on,” Felix said.

“We didn’t want you dead,” Dane said. “We wanted you to be held accountable for your actions.”

Jacqueline said, “It will be up to the League to decide your fate.”

More hunters arrived, some of them who were neighbors in the neighborhood. One of them inclined his head to Felix and immediately, Adonis grabbed him and took him into custody.

“Get your filthy hands off me,” the guy said.

“You were in collusion with Felix. You were the one who allowed these men to come into the neighborhood. And you’re here now to try and see what happened to the hunters you were working with to take us down,” Adonis accused.

“Hell, I wasn’t. I just live here. And like the others here, I wanted to know what was going on.”

“You signaled to Felix. Don’t lie.”

“Yeah, I saw it too,” Dane said.

“Me too,” Zachary said. “You can try to dig yourself out of the situation, but the League will uncover the truth.”

Then the police cuffed the neighbor and took him with the others.

In the meantime, Dane’s good neighbors congratulated them for exposing the rogue hunters. “We can’t have murdering hunters like them among us. Any of us could face what you already had to,” George said. “None of you deserve this kind of treatment from our kind or from anyone else.”

The hunter neighbors all looked at Jacqueline, smiling. Josh said, “We’re glad you’re fine.”

“Yeah, it was the only way we could think of to make sure they wouldn’t try another hit on me. Then the human hunters told us they were going to eliminate Dane also,” Jacqueline said.

“Thanks to everyone. We appreciate it,” Dane said.

The hunters from the neighborhood there gave them hugs, wished them well, then walked back to their homes.

“I guess we can leave the two of you alone to take care of your own business,” Matt said to Dane and Jacqueline.

“Thanks so much for coming to help us,” Jacqueline said.

“Moving like you do as vampires sure is a great ability,” Ryan said. “When we were at the therapy meeting place, Dane told me the news. All the hunters turned left me, and I ended up jumping into our car to return here, but man, I wished I could have traveled like you did and gotten here a lot quicker.”

“Yeah, I was so glad to do that since Jacqueline and our brothers were in such a dire situation,” Dane said.

“We felt the same way,” Matt said. “We were in the house when she ended up fighting them. Hell, we didn’t know there were so many of them.”

“I didn’t either. I saw the one who suddenly observed me. The others were spread out at different locations on Dane’s property. I saw two others suddenly coming toward me, but I was trying to concentrate on the one I was fighting. But I also let Dane know I was fighting one at his home. I really thought there were only five of them, the same five hunters at the hunters’ club. I never expected them to gather more hunters who had gone rogue,” Jacqueline said.

“Two of them were already rogue hunters on an elimination list for hunting down vampires who aren’t rogues. I guess Felix knew them so they could do this hit with them,” Dane said.

Then everyone helped to make the steak dinner they had planned on making before all the craziness began, except that they had a few more guests and a couple of the guests brought more steaks to their place.