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“I’m going to pick up a huntress I wanted to ask out. Hopefully, she’ll be free,” Matt said.

“Who?” Jacqueline asked before the others could ask.

“Marissa.”

“Marissa Overlander?” Jacqueline asked.

“Yeah, do you know her?” Matt asked.

“Just by name. I’ve heard she’s kind of a maverick huntress,” Jacqueline said.

Matt smiled.

She got the impression that he liked that kind of a woman.

Then Matt called Marissa and said, “Hey, this is Matt Edmonton. Yeah. My brothers and a huntress are going to a human club. Do you want to go with us? I can pick you up and take you?” He shook his head. “Okay, no problem. Maybe we can make it another time then. Sure, bye.” He ended the call.

“No, deal, eh?” Dane said.

“She said the notice was too short but that she was happy to go out some other time—if she has enough notice.”

Jacqueline laughed. “She probably had other plans.”

“She’ll take you up on the next offer, if you don’t call her at the last minute,” Trey said.

“Yeah,” Matt said.

Dane said, “I’m lucky that Jacqueline loves to do things on the spur of the moment.”

“Yeah, but truly, Marissa could have had some plans she couldn’t or wouldn’t change for a date with a hunter she has never dated before,” Jacqueline said. “I mean, if I had plans to do something and couldn’t get away for a spontaneous date. I would have said the same thing.”

“Nah,” Dane said. “You would have dropped any of your plans to go out with me.”

His brothers laughed.

“You are so sure of yourself,” she said, kissing his cheek. She realized he might be right though.

Trey said, “I’ll ask Denise if she and two of her huntress friends can go with us.” He got on his phone and called her. “Hey, my brothers and I and a huntress are going to a human club. Do you and a couple of your huntress friends want to join us?” He smiled at Matt. “Okay, we’ll come and pick you up…yeah, now. See you in a few.” He said to them, “Okay, we all have dates.”

Matt slapped him on the back. “Good going.”

“Is this going to mess you up with plans to date Marissa later?” Jacqueline asked.

“I’ve never dated her before so there may never be anything there between us,” Matt said.

But Jacqueline wasn’t sure that Marissa would feel that way if she learned that when she said she couldn’t go out with him, he just picked up another date for the night.

Then Dane’s brothers went to pick up the other women while Dane and Jacqueline dressed.

“I was going to say you’re a maverick huntress,” Dane said.

She chuckled. “I am. Okay, I’m going to wear this off-the-shoulder black dress and heels.”

“Oh, I love that. I’ve got this black shirt, black jeans, and dress shoes.”

“Perfect.” Once he pulled off his shirt, she ran her hands over his bare chest. “I guess we can’t skip out on your brothers and their dates.”

“Sure we can.”