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“Well, thanks. I appreciate it.” She had hoped Dane wouldn’t take her up on the offer because she thought he deserved all the money, but she really thought the world of him for giving up half the bounty to her.
He called the police and reported the kill. “I also have a recording where he was making a couple of deals to be a hitman for a murder-for-hire scheme. Yes. We’ll be here.”
They always hung around until the police arrived and verified who the dead vampire was. Providing evidence that the rogue vampires were up to their usual shenanigans regarding trying to turn or kill people when the hunters took them down was helpful, but it wasn’t absolutely necessary. The police already had enough evidence against them. They just needed hunters to terminate them.
They both went into the kitchen and found fresh bottles of blood. Because they were newly turned, they had to drink them occasionally, especially if they were injured and had lost blood. Dane poured them both a glass before the police arrived. It was better if the police didn’t witness them drinking blood. It just kind of freaked some humans out.
“Have you extended your fangs yet?” she asked Dane, then finished her glass and washed it out.
“A couple of times.”
“Oh?”
“When you kissed me the first time.”
Her jaw dropped.
He smiled. “Apparently, when a vampire is aroused, his canines can extend. I suppose that if you are an ancient vampire, you would have more control over it. I’ve never kissed a woman since I became a vampire, so when we kissed, I wasn’t expecting that.”
“You hid them well.”
“We didn’t kiss deeply, or you might have noticed. Yours didn’t drop down?”
“No. I thought they would, only if you were really angry.”
“Yeah, then too, supposedly, but I guess I haven’t been angry enough. And of course, they’ll drop down at command if you want to bite someone or want to show them off. I had to show them to my brothers. They still didn’t believe that the vampire had turned me until then. Of course, once I could vanish, they really had to believe it.” Dane finished his glass and cleaned it and set it on a drying pad next to hers.
“I think it’s nice that they are still close to you. But you don’t hunt together.”
“Sometimes. Like if we know a group of rogues need to be eliminated, we need more of us to do it.”
“Well, I think it’s great.”
Then they heard the sirens and three police cars pulled up. Dane identified himself and Jacqueline to an officer and gave their statements. Another couple of officers were searching through a file cabinet and one said, “Holy, crap! We’ve got the mother lode.”
“What have you got?” a homicide detective asked.
“Files on several people that Mabon murdered, including all the contract information—payout, details on where a key would be left for him to have easy access to victims’ homes or offices, or when his target would be home or alone. Names, addresses, everything,” the officer said.
Then the detective started looking through them. “Okay, we put the people who hired him on five of these robberies in jail, but there are another six here that we thought were home invasions, robberies that had gone bad, but now we know they were all murders. We’ll get all the culprits who hired him.” The detective thanked Dane and Jacqueline then and released them.
“Are you ready to go home?” Dane asked her as they headed out to his truck.
“Yeah. I’m tired. It’s late. It’s time to call it a night.”
“What do you like to do for fun?” he asked as they got on the road headed back to their housing development.
“Terminate rogue vampires.”
He smiled. “Other than that?”
“I used to like to dance at a hunter club close by.”
“We could go there.”
“We’re vampires now.”
“You mentioned a human club. They don’t know what we are and vampires who are looking for blood bonds go to them, so we would fit right in.”
