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“Yes. I sure do. I want this finished, to learn for sure one way or another, though it sounds like there’s enough evidence to prove he was involved in your ambush,” Jacqueline said. “You don’t think Wendy had anything to do with this, do you? Or her parents?”
“I really don’t think so. I think she was duped like the rest of us,” Dane said. “As for her parents, they were welcoming me into the family until I was turned.”
When they arrived at Moose’s house, hunters who were investigators, and Tobias were just leaving it.
“Did you find any evidence at his place?” Dane asked.
“Plenty. He had written in a journal how he planned to take you out, but you would never know what hit you. And no one in the hunter community would be the wiser,” Tobias said. “He wouldn’t confess the crime at the jail, but his journal laid the whole thing out. Later, after you were turned and your brothers killed Lucilla, he wrote that he was glad she was dead, though he planned to terminate her to clean up loose ends, and to get the bounty for her, but he couldn’t believe you were still alive. Still, Lucilla was dead and that worked well for him. And you being turned had the same effect—that her parents said Wendy couldn’t mate you, and he was free to date her then. Green had either been hanging out with vampires, at vampire clubs, or in general had made himself scarce, or else Moose said he would have terminated him too. The first chance he got, he planned to. Also, his phone had text messages between him, Lucilla and him and Green. He should have deleted them, but he just never thought anyone would believe he had anything to do with the ambush.”
“What happens next?” Dane asked.
“He goes on trial, and once they find him guilty, they eliminate him,” Tobias said. “We can’t allow someone like him to sneakily attack other hunters.” Then he sighed. “Okay, so I have other news. Wendy was also text messaging Moose, and he was texting her back.”
“Before I was ambushed?”
“Yeah, for two weeks. After that also, but she hadn’t been texting him before those two weeks.”
“So something had changed.”
“Right.”
Dane started to think back to the time before he went on the mission to take down Lucilla. “Wendy and I had been having arguments over finances about three weeks before I went after Lucilla. Wendy spent well over what she made on hunting missions, and she was always asking her parents for money. When they cut her off, she expected me to pay for all her extravagances, but I wouldn’t do it. But what if she wanted to get rid of me and save face from having to end our marriage plans?”
“She doesn’t have a life insurance policy on you, does she?” Tobias asked.
“Hell, I don’t know. But that would be a great motivation if she did, I had died, and she got the money for my death.”
“We’re taking her into custody for questioning and we’ll search her financial records and home. We’ll see if she has an insurance policy on you,” Tobias said.
* * *
Jacqueline couldn’t believe that Dane’s own fiancée might have tried to have him killed. She had thought Van ditching her was bad, but this was way worse. She felt so bad for Dane. She squeezed Dane’s hand. “I’m so sorry this happened to you.”
“It just goes to prove she wasn’t the right one for me. But I hope she gets her just desserts, if she was the one who was responsible for initiating the whole ambush scenario. All I’ve got to say is Lucilla must have been laughing her head off that two hunters wanted me dead, and she wasn’t about to kill me and turned me instead. She would have had the last laugh, if she wasn’t dead.”
“I’m surprised Wendy and Moose didn’t team up to try and kill you in another way to cover their tracks.”
“They might have been planning it. Who knows.”
About twenty minutes later, one of Tobias’s men joined them at Moose’s house waving a piece of paper. “This is a signed life insurance policy we found at Wendy’s home listing her as the beneficiary in the event of Dane’s death.”
“In the amount of?” Dane asked as he read the paperwork and Jacqueline was checking it over too.
“One million dollars?” Jacqueline said. “Ohmigod, I’m really surprised they didn’t try to have you killed again. Motivation-wise, that’s a million reasons to terminate you.”
“Yeah, and it says I signed the paperwork but that’s not my signature,” Dane said.
“They might have been just waiting for another opportunity, but they might have been afraid of coming after you now that you’re a vampire and I’m with you so much. Your brothers also,” Jacqueline said.
Tobias got a call and said, “All right. I’ll be right there.” He ended the call. “One of the hunters who came after you, Dane, and gave up before anyone terminated him is speaking out against those who incited the whole battle at your house.”
“That’s great,” Dane said.
“Wendy and Moose were behind it,” Tobias said.
“Aww, hell,” Dane said. “But it even makes more sense why the other hunters would come after us—maybe Jacqueline first so they didn’t have to fight two of us. Or maybe Wendy was jealous that I was seeing Jacqueline. And the hunters already hated us for being hunters turned.”
“She might have also offered to pay some of the insurance policy money to whoever killed you and me,” Jacqueline said.
