day before and he ushered everyone from the booth to make room and provide privacy for Keegan. She watched as he licked his lips and sprawled back in his seat. “So what can I help you with?”
“Does anyone in the prowl, did anyone in the prowl,” Keegan corrected herself. “Did they have a problem with either Cody or Alice that you know of?”
“I believe you asked me this question already but I’ll answer you again. No one had issues with Cody. Though some of the prowl didn’t like the fact that he was a human that had mated with a shifter.” Bryton answered with a shrug. “I think it was more jealousy rather than murderous rage if you know what I mean. A lot of people don’t think they can handle mating with a human but Alice and Cody? There was no separating the two of them once they got together.”
“Do you mind letting me know who exactly didn’t like the fact that Alice mated with a human?” Keegan pulled out her notebook and rolled her eyes when he shook his head before he grabbed the notebook and jotted names down himself.
“You know me better than that Detective. As much as their deaths have shocked the supernatural community my first priority is protecting my people and I will do that until I have no other choice to do so. So no, I can not give you their names.”
Keegan understood his game and played along to make it seem legit. “I could get a warrant for the information if it really came down to it.”
“I sincerely doubt that detective. What evidence do you have that could persuade a judge, even one supernaturally inclined, to grant you a warrant on just trying to suss out information? I cannot think of one.”
“See the thing is,” Keegan knew this was going to be like a punch to the gut, or would have been if Bryton hadn’t given her the names willingly. But she still needed to be sure that he knew that the prowl wasn’t in the clear and there was a murderer in their mists and she was going to find them one way or another. “We do have enough evidence.”
Bryton sat up straighter in his seat understanding what she was saying and he nodded respectively. “Well once you have that warrant I will part with the information. Until then, I haven’t much to say to you.”
“Well thank you for your time and I apologize for crashing your morning.”
“Not a problem detective. You be careful out there.”
Keegan took that as the warning that Bryton had intended it to be. Now that the entire prowl knew that the police had evidence directing them in the direction of the leopards anyone investigating the deaths would be at risk. What they didn’t know was that if they came after any of SIU they could hold their own. It was homicide that needed to really worry about protecting themselves.
With the list of names propped up against the monitor, Keegan began the background searches on the four names that Bryton had scribbled down for her after she had shown back up with a warrant. She was chewing on the clip of her pen when Matt showed up across her desk. “What’s up detective?”
“I just got Biggerson’s report on some molds you asked her to make?” He tapped the file against the edge of her desk. “I thought you would want to head down to speak with Bryton Anderson and see if he has anything to say about Cody and Alice’s deaths.”
Keegan pointed towards the screen in front of her. “Early bird gets the worm, Hollis. I’m working background on a few people who he thought might have had issues with them.”
Matt dragged a chair around the corner of her desk and settled in beside her. “You work fast Morne.”
“What can I say? I’m just that good.” She grinned over her shoulder at him and let out a sigh. “So far I haven’t come up with anything on them. I’ve got local addresses on each of these guys but they’re going to know that we’re going to show up on their doorstep because I was at The Jumping Bean after the morning of a full moon. All SIU cops know that right after a full moon shifters are most likely to give up more information because they’re recovering.”
“You think we can trust Bryton?” Matt grabbed the papers Keegan had printed out and started scanning over them.
“I believe we can.