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We entered the house, passing by more humans in the corridor and on the staircase I held my breath as Derek and I entered the bedrooed in a horror movie, much like the last incident Clearly, this was the saans were sprayed about the room As much as blood was delicious to ain, there were no bodies

Derek and I scanned the room and the ensuite bathroom Derek turned to Abby, who had followed us upstairs

"The whole house has been searched for re hard "What you see in this room is all we’ve found"

My husband and I stared at each other

"How could there be no skeleton at least?" I breathed

He clenched his jaw "Either this predator is sing theh for the re this island," I said

Derek nodded, running a hand through his hair as he took in the ghastly sight oncetoward the exit "And frouard each human residence," he said while we descended the stairs "No huet to the bottom of this"

As alked out the front door, back onto the street, the crowd assailed us with question after question Derek looked inthat he should leave to ements while I remained to try to pacify our people

I looked around at all the terrified and confused faces I did my best to answer their questions Most of all, they just wanted to be reassured that their children would be able to sleep safely at night

"Derek has just left to uards They will camp out here and will not leave until we have found the killer"

"But what if it’s a vah-pitched voice called out

I looked toward the source of the voice, a young boy with jet-black hair Cal was his naest of the Anderson family I walked up to hi down to his level so I could look hiuard has touched a human on this island for almost twenty years, honey Do you really think that one of theed

I looked around at the crowd again Everyone surrounding ly It shocked me that this doubt could have entered so quickly into their hearts after we’d lived together in harmony on this island for so h-school student named Emily asked

"Adelle has already confir the time of the first attack And both of these attacks were clearly carried out by the same killer Besides, Shadow has been trained by Eli to be of no harm to humans Like the other vampires, he hasn’t touched a human in recent history"

"What if it’s a olf?" Hector, an elderly man, spoke up "Would you sentence it to death or banish it from the island?"