Page 94 of Huntress Unleashed

Then Dane vanished and ended up back at Moose’s house. Everyone was gone, including Wendy. He wondered if she had changed her mind about dating Moose. Which would be a good thing if he was found guilty.

“Hey, where are you?” he asked Jacqueline, still wanting to be with her and keeping her safe, not sure why he thought she might be in danger.

“I’m with my brother and your brother Trey, looking into the bank records of Lucilla, Green, and Moose. You wouldn’t believe that they all three banked at the same place, and yes, we found a connection between all three of them. Transfers of money were made between Moose and Lucilla and Green. He paid Green a thousand dollars, and Lucilla twenty thousand.”

“Which bank?”

“First National.”

“I’ll be there in a minute.”

“Is Moose confined?”

“Yes, they put him in lockup.” Then Dane drove to the bank that was also the one he used! He couldn’t believe it. He’d seen Moose in there before. He was surprised Green and Lucilla also banked there.

He smiled to see Jacqueline coming out to meet him. He pulled her into his arms and kissed her. He just felt good whenever he reconnected with her. There was no one more special than she was.

“Hey, we’re doing great putting together the puzzle pieces and sequence of events,” she said. “The dates of the payouts all match up with the time that you were ambushed. Michael and Danai are talking to the phone company about any phone calls that were made.”

“You talked to Green.”

“I vampirically gave him some memories of you. He was so excited to remember working with you.”

“Wow, that’s great. What about the money from Moose?”

“Yes. I reminded him that Moose paid him a thousand dollars to send you into an ambush.”

“What if he hadn’t though?”

“Moose wrote the checks and paid both Lucilla and Green. And then you are ambushed that very night? Too much of a coincidence,” Jacqueline said. “Besides, Lucilla was a known rogue vampiress. Moose had no legal reason to be paying her any sum of money.”

“Yeah, I agree,” Dane said.

Robert and Trey came outside of the bank with all the paperwork from their investigation. Michael called Dane then and when he answered the phone, he put it on speaker so everyone could hear it.

“So what did you learn, Michael?” Dane asked.

“Good news. Well, it’s good as far as proving where everyone was at the time of the ambush, and also who was talking to whom. That’s one advantage vampires have. They don’t have to use phones. But Lucilla couldn’t talk to Green or Moose that way. It’s bad news for Moose because it proves he was in contact with Lucilla and Green before you were attacked. Moose speaking to Green was one thing, but Moose shouldn’t have been talking to Lucilla. He should have been eliminating her. There’s no way he can explain that away. Your brothers killed Lucilla before she could tell Moose that she had turned you instead of killing you or that she had wiped Green’s mind of you or Moose’s involvement in any of this.”

“That’s good news,” Dane said.

“Moose was also near where you were turned. His cell pinged off the cell tower right there,” Michael said.

“Damn,” Dane said.

“Yeah, the hunter is a bastard,” Michael agreed.

“He did this all so he could date Wendy?” Dane couldn’t believe anyone would put his life on the line just to date a woman.

“He didn’t have any insurance policies on you, did he?” Michael asked.

Dane laughed. “He better not have.”

“We’ll look into that,” Trey said. But then he filled Michael in on the payments that Moose made to Lucilla and Green.”

“Hell. Okay, I’m out of here. Tobias and a team of hunters are going to have Moose’s house searched for any incriminating evidence,” Michael said.

“Good. Jacqueline, do you want to go there to see what they discover?” Dane asked.