what had happened to make him so standoffish other than the fact that he must have looked into her personnel files. And honestly, at this point? She couldn’t find it in herself to give a rat’s ass about how he felt about her being a necromancer. They were professionals and should damn well act that way.
Manners were always the key to any working relationship, Keegan reminded herself. No matter how many times she had to remind her self to filter the thoughts trickling down from her brain, being polite almost always got her the answers she was looking for. “I talked to the alpha of the prowl and wanted to see what you thought about what I got from the interview?
He checked his watch before he answered her. “I’ve got about five minutes. You think that’s enough time?”
Keegan shook her head in disbelief. He didn’t even look her in the eye when he answered and just a moment ago when she sat down he looked like he was in for the long haul at his desk but now he didn’t have any time for her? This was supposed to be a collaborative effort between the two departments and it was starting to look more and more like a poorly thought out competition.
“You want to act like the rest of the jerks that you call your team go ahead. But while you are the one who is shutting out a major source of information for your investigation I have got one question for you Hollis.” Keegan slammed her hand down against his desk. “I want you to tell me who Cody and Alice Barr trusted enough to let them get so close to their son in a shifted form? Perhaps why the alpha of the prowl seems to be a little off? Think on that while you try and pull your head out of your ass and solve this case by yourself.”
Keegan ignored the shocked faces as she marched from homicide and down the stairs into SIU. She didn’t pay any attention to the concerned glances she got from Leeroy. She scooped up her keys and growled out, “I’ll be back.”
“Okay.” Leeroy whistled at the fury that was radiating off of her before he went back to work. Leeroy looked over to Gary who was just as shocked as he was. “Do I even want to know where she might be going?”
“Uh,” Gary scratched his forehead. “If she was me she’d probably be burning villages to smithereens but I figure she’s heading to her Mom’s place.”
“Damn.” Leeroy rubbed his stomach. “If I were Keegan I would never leave that place. The food she makes is heavenly.”
“So should we find out what made her so angry upstairs or should we leave it?” Gary asked after a few moments of fantasizing about food.
Leeroy let out a sigh. “I’m betting it has to do with a certain detective who’s been acting like a jerk since he visited the SD.”
Gary scoffed. “Humans. You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them.”
There were times when the only person you could go to that would understand you or pretend to was one of your parents. So what if Keegan was running home to her mom for a little bit of support, everyone did that at some point? Right?
Despite the bright cheery Christmas lights her mom had hanging around the house, along with the blow-up snow man she had sitting in the yard, Keegan didn’t have the same holiday cheer everyone else did. She let out an audible growl as soon as she pulled into the driveway of her mother’s house. By the looks of the banged up and rusted four by four Gordon was already visiting. Tapping her fingers on the steering wheel debating whether she should risk it or not Keegan unbuckled her seatbelt and headed towards the front door. She wasn’t letting Gordon and his girlfriend get the better of her. She wanted to have ten minutes where it didn’t feel like someone was breathing down her neck in disapproval because of what she is or need to get things done faster than possible. If that place was at her mom’s, then that is where she was going. Sibling rivalry be damned.
She smacked her palm against the screen door a few times before trying the door and finding it unlocked. She hadn’t even made it out of the foyer when Gordon rounded the corner leading from the kitchen. Keegan focused on the garland