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“We can stay at my place,” Matt said. “Or Dane’s.”
“I have a cat, Princess,” Jacqueline said.
“She’ll be welcome anywhere that she’ll stay,” Dane said.
“All right, but she sleeps with me,” she said, waiting to see what Dane’s response to that would be.
Dane smiled and all his brothers looked at him to see his take on it as if that’s where their relationship was headed.
“Hey, that works for me,” Dane said.
She sighed. She thought she would be staying alone in a bedroom—with her cat, but she guessed that could be dangerous if Heskel got to her and could take her with him right under everyone’s noses.
“If we stay at my place”—which frankly she would have preferred—“Heskel would most likely know that’s where I live.”
“Yes,” Dane said, “but if you would feel more comfortable with staying there, we’ll do it. This is a really trying time for you with your ‘maker’ after you.”
“Well, who has the bigger place?” she asked, smiling. She might as well get something out of this.
Ryan laughed. “You’re my kind of girl.”
“Dane does and he even has a swimming pool that we love to use,” Trey said, his twin agreeing.
“Okay, well, it’s close to my place so we’ll meet you at my home first, I’ll pack some things and Princess and then go to Dane’s home with my cat?” she asked Matt.
“Yeah, let’s go,” Matt said.
They got into their respective vehicles and Matt followed them in his car, the twins with him.
“You’re really all right with my cat sleeping in bed with me?” she asked.
Dane smiled at her. He had the most disarming and charming smile of any hunter she’d ever known. Why couldn’t she have met him before instead of Van? She really liked him deep down so much more than her ex-fiancé. Dane was there for her no matter what.
“I’m fine with it. When I was a kid, we had a German shepherd and he slept with me. He always tried to sleep in the middle of the bed and would kick me when he was having doggy dreams.”
She laughed. “Truthfully, Princess gets hot, and she’ll leave the bed, but if there’s another body in the bed, she might leave sooner.”
“I have a king-sized bed, so maybe she won’t feel too confined. On another topic, I want to talk to your parents too,” Dane said.
That shocked her. “Why?” She couldn’t imagine he was thinking of talking to them about dating her. There was no way Jacqueline felt her parents should have any say in her life from now on, unless they changed their tune about what she had become.
“I just need to get something off my chest with them.”
Her jaw dropped. Then she frowned. “It’s their problem.”
“That’s not good enough.”
“All right. You do what you want.” She wanted to be a fly on the wall when he did it. She could imagine her parents getting defensive, but she was also curious how he would handle it.
“Good.”
She hoped he had let it be her choice, but he was his own person and in a way, she liked that he would stick up for her. It would be interesting to see if it had any effect on the way they treated her. On the other hand, she didn’t want them to feel they had to be close to her again just because they were being forced to.
They finally reached her house, and Matt pulled up in his car next to hers.
Then she went to the front door and wasn’t surprised when Dane and his brothers all went inside with her. They greeted Princess who had heard her car’s engine so she was eager to see her. Jacqueline was so tired after hunting two vampires tonight and then going after Heskel, she just wanted to retire to bed.
“If you could grab some of Princess’s food, her water dish, the litter box, and the bag of litter, I would be grateful,” she said to the brothers. “Princess will not ride in a carrier, so we’ll just take her in my car. I’ll pack a bag.”
