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He smiled. He could see her doing it too.
“Oh, I was thinking about Stacey and how she said her brother had come to her aid when she had been turned. I wonder if he’ll be there to back her up on this.”
“Maybe, since my brothers are. But you never know. For him, taking down the rogue that had turned her was really important. Allowing a bunch of half vampire, half hunters into an all-hunter club might be another story. He might even feel pressured by his hunter friends to go along with keeping us out.” Then Dane pulled into the club parking lot and saw his brothers there. To his surprise, so were Stacey and her brother, Richard. Zachary and his mate Pasha were there. Danai and Michael were also there, along with Adonis, and his mate Rachael.
Dane smiled. He was glad they had such a nice turn out. The club wasn’t really busy at this time of night, so they would grab seats in a section of it, claiming their bit of territory, and have the wall to their backs.
Then they went inside. Five hunters were there, all male, all sitting up at the bar, three of them there on their own, two sitting together talking. They didn’t pay any attention to Dane and his friends’ arrival as they took their seats at the perfect spot. They could watch everyone coming into the establishment. A window was situated on their right side. They weren’t going to be sitting hidden in the back because they wanted everyone to know they were there, and they had every right to be.
Through the window, Dane saw two more cars roll up into the parking lot, and Zachary said to Stacey and Jacqueline, “The blue Cadillac is my dad’s. Tobias’s brothers, my uncles, Brent and Curt, are with him. In the other car, that’s my cousin Ferris and his mate, Mary, and his twin, Ned, and his mate, Trish.”
“Wow, this is a great turnout,” Jacqueline said, taking hold of Dane’s hand and squeezing it. He leaned down and kissed her mouth.
He was glad to see her so cheerful when she had been so apprehensive before. Of course, it didn’t mean that they wouldn’t have trouble from some of the hunters when they arrived. But it felt good to be at the club like he was still a hunter and belonged here just as much as anyone else.
Everyone greeted everyone and more introductions were made to let everyone know who Stacey and Jacqueline were.
Tobias said, “You ladies must not have gone to this hunters’ club much or I would have noticed you.”
Stacey said, “I usually go to one that’s a little closer to my home, so this one is new to me.”
“I’ve been with my ex-fiancé here a few times. We probably just were here on nights that you weren’t,” Jacqueline said. “I had seen Zachary here before, but I didn’t know him at the time.”
“With a huntress?” Pasha asked, looking askance at Zachary.
Jacqueline smiled. “No, with Michael, I believe, though I didn’t know his name either at the time. And I had seen Dane once.”
“With my ex-fiancée?” Dane asked.
“Yeah.”
“How did I not notice you?” Dane asked.
She chuckled. “You were with your fiancée at the time.”
Everyone seemed of good cheer, dressed to the nines, happy, smiling, ordering cocktails except for Rachael who just got flavored water.
“Have any of you been to a hunters’ club since you were turned?” Jacqueline asked.
“No,” Zachary said, all the others in their family who had been turned agreeing.
Zachary’s uncles and other cousins hadn’t been turned, but they had backed the family once the changes had occurred. It had been hard for them to deal with it at first, but necessary. And their family was family, still the same personalities, but just having vampiric abilities that made them stand out from the rest. At least that’s how Tobias and his brothers had finally come to view it.
“Are we doing the right thing?” Jacqueline asked, looking at Rachael who had recently had a baby.
Rachael smiled. “Oh, absolutely. This is a long time in coming. We’ve been busy hunting, well, until I couldn’t hunt any longer, but yeah, it’s something that we had talked about doing and the family finally is home from Florida for a little while, so…it’s perfect. If we have any trouble, we’ll take care of it as we see fit. If worse comes to worst, we can vanish and reappear somewhere safe.”
“Which is the only reason I said it was okay for Rachael to come, since she had our baby not that long ago,” Adonis said.
Rachael laughed a little. “As if you could keep me away from having fun dancing with you.”
The music was playing, no live band yet, but after they all ordered their drinks, the mated couples began to dance, joined by others as Trey took Stacey to the floor, and Dane took Jacqueline.
When she was dancing with Dane she felt as if she were dancing on air, he was such a smooth dancer, completely in control. She loved how gracefully he moved.
“I don’t know about you, but I swear I’ve never danced so well in my life,” Dane said.
“Oh, me too. Is it because we are vampires also now?”
