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Then the police arrived, and Dane let them in. “There are two more upstairs. They’re sitting in the master bedroom on the floor.”
One of the officers, Murphy, had been at the scene where they had taken down Mabon and recognized them. “I can’t believe how compliant these guys are.”
“Yeah, once they realized whose house they were in, they came around pretty quickly. Uh, I might need to release the guys upstairs to go with your officers.” Not to freak the police out, Dane dashed up the stairs instead of disappearing and reappearing in the room. A couple of officers couldn’t get the two men to leave their sitting position on the bedroom floor as if they were staging a sit-in. “Go with the police officers,” Dane said.
They instantly stood up and the officers handcuffed them and took them into custody. They headed them downstairs.
“Are you going to file charges?” the officer downstairs asked.
“Yeah. If we don’t, they’ll just break into someone else’s home. At least we can have a clear conscious that we tried to do something about it,” Dane said.
“You do a lot for the community by taking down rogue vampires, and we really appreciate it. Taking in a bunch of would-be thieves is the least we can do for you,” Officer Murphy said.
Dane and Jacqueline gave their statements to the officer.
“Hey, we found a car filled with stolen merchandise just down the street,” another officer said, coming inside. “It belongs to one of these guys.”
The housebreakers looked like their gooses were cooked now. Good. Dane hoped they would serve some time for this.
“Oh, how did they get inside your house?” Murphy asked. “Were the doors all locked?”
“They were,” Dane said.
“We found where they had torn off a window screen on one of the windows on the back of the house. They broke the window and climbed in that way,” the other officer said.
“I’ll need to have that fixed.” Dane noticed that Jacqueline was talking to the four would-be thieves outside on the covered front porch before the officers carted them off to a holding cell and he wondered if she was telling them never to steal from anyone again. He hadn’t thought of it at the time, but he could have done that himself. That was one neat vampire trick—persuading humans to do something—he needed to use more often.
Then the officers put the would-be thieves in some patrol cars and Jacqueline walked inside the house. Dane closed the door and locked it.
“I’m glad the doors were all locked when they broke in,” she said.
“Yeah, so it proved they had actually broken in. I’m surprised we didn’t hear them.”
“That’s probably what alerted us, though we hadn’t known what it was.”
“Yeah, true. I guess that’s it for swimming. Do you want some lunch? After we get dressed.”
“Sure.”
They both vanished and appeared in his bedroom.
“So I told the men not to ask for lawyers and to confess everything illegal they’ve ever done, and where all the stolen merchandise is now,” Jacqueline said, peeling off her wet bikini and putting it in the bathroom over the tub to dry.
Dane laughed. “I’m sure the police appreciated that.” He set his swim trunks next to hers.
“Yeah, they began recording their confessions as soon as they got them into the vehicles because they were starting to list all the crimes they’d committed from when they were kids—stealing from stores and even their mom’s purses. It’s going to be a long list.” She started to fasten her bra and Dane quickly took over and fastened it for her. “Why thank you, sir.”
“You’re so welcome.” Then he began getting dressed too. “I thought you were going to tell them never to steal again.”
“Oh, I did that too. But I also wanted them to reveal all the crimes they had done in the past so that they might bring some closure to others that they had stolen from—crimes that they had gotten away with.”
He smiled. “Great thinking. I had never thought of using vampiric persuasion to get someone to do something. But it comes in handy.”
“I rarely think of it either. It’s just one of those things we need to practice at for it to come more naturally.”
“The next time we want a better table at a restaurant…”
“Oh, can you see us saying that to a hostess, and she makes someone who is in the middle of eating their meal move to another table?” she asked.
