6
After I went home and had more time to think about what Shelley had told me, another clue rose to the surface of my mind.
Peter had obviously been cheating. She’d seen a bruise on his neck that could only have been caused by someone else’s mouth.
Especially their teeth, since she’d said it looked like a bite.
My mind immediately went to Ilsa, the vampire. I had no idea how Ilsa and Peter would even have known each other, nor had I ever seen them interacting, but she seemed to be the top suspect. And she was one of the few people who could have killed him and left traces of magic on the body.
Of course, vampires usually made much cleaner kills, but maybe she’d tried to make it seem like wild animals did it.
It was possible that someone else had been cheating with Peter and had just
