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“Heskel?” Dane took her into his arms as if to protect him from the monster.
His brothers stopped playing and watched them, having heard him mention Heskel’s name.
She nodded. “He asked me where I’m at.”
“He knows you’re not at home?” Dane asked.
“It appears that way. Do you think he sent his blood bonds to come for me?”
“It sounds like he has sent someone to check on you or grab you.”
“But he doesn’t know where I am now. No one must have been watching my house when we returned there, packed up, and left. Which I’m glad for.”
“Me too.”
“Can he force you to tell him where you are?” Matt asked, treading water in the deep end of the pool.
“I haven’t answered him. I didn’t before when he told me to meet him at his blood bond’s house either. I just told you and we went there.”
“Okay,” Matt said. “So he can’t read your mind.”
“No. He can talk to me telepathically, but he can’t seem to force me to tell him what I’m up to. And he can’t make me telepathically communicate with him. But I’m sure he’ll be trying to learn where I am.”
“Did you feel forced to go to Heskel’s blood bond’s house?” Trey asked.
“I did. Not like I had to leave right that second, but I felt I had to do it. I couldn’t kill him, but I actually threatened him with my sword. I couldn’t believe I could do that. I keep hoping that as a huntress, I’m able to fight his control. Maybe not all the way, but enough to keep him from making me do anything against my will.”
“We need to take down this bastard,” Trey said, everyone agreeing.
God, how she hated that the vampire who had turned her had any control over her life. It had been turned upside down enough already!
“Maybe we should go to a vampire club and see if we can track him down that way,” Dane said.
“Do you think vampires who are strictly vampires would turn on one of their own?” she asked, afraid they would just as soon tell Heskel the hunters were at the club looking for him.
“Not necessarily,” Dane said. “The vampires who aren’t rogues don’t want to have their own names blackened. Though if friends of Heskel are there, or other rogues, they might feel compelled to tell him that we were looking for him.”
“Well, also, I suspect that they won’t want us in the club either because we’re still hunters,” she said. “I’m going to change clothes.”
“See you upstairs in a minute,” he said.
She vanished and reappeared in his bedroom, changed into jeans and a T-shirt and headed downstairs. “How does sea bass sound for lunch?” she asked.
“Delicious. I’ll be right down,” Dane said and vanished.
Then the brothers left the swimming pool, went upstairs to change, and they all joined her downstairs. They ended up having sea bass, fried potatoes, tomatoes, and green beans.
“Let’s go to the park and take a hike,” Jacqueline said.
Matt asked, “All of us?”
“Sure,” she said.
It was cloudy out, but for now, there was only a low chance of rain. After eating lunch, the brothers cleaned up, then they all went for a drive to a park to hike a ten-mile trail. Dane walked with Jacqueline while Matt walked way ahead of them, and Trey and Ryan walked way behind them—there for them in the event anyone caused trouble for them.
Once they returned to Dane’s house, Jacqueline said, “We ought to go to a humans’ club. We should be able to dance and enjoy ourselves at one without any incident.” She felt that she couldn’t be locked up while waiting for a chance to take down Heskel.
“Yeah, I’m ready for it,” Dane said.
