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turned pallid and his eyes were bright amber yellow as he stalked forwards out of the crowd. “May I help you?”
    Both Keegan and Leeroy automatically grabbed their badges for identification as Keegan introduced them, “I’m Detective Keegan Morne and this is Leeroy from the SIU. We’re hoping to have a moment of your time Mr. Anderson?”
    Bryton grabbed their badges and inspected them for a long moment before he fixated on Keegan. “You I will speak to. Leeroy may wait for you up here and anything he would like to drink is on the house.”
    Keegan looked over at Leeroy to see if he was okay with the arrangement. He looked miffed about it but if it was the only way they could speak to him then it would have to do.
    “I’ll be waiting then.” Leeroy sent a good natured smile towards Bryton before heading towards a window seat and settling down from the duration.
    Keegan followed Bryton through the maze of tables and they finally reached the furthest table in the shop. Bryton motioned for the members of the prowl that were sitting to leave. Keegan waited silently as they scooted from the booth and headed towards the front of the shop.
    Bryton gestured for her to sit. “I apologize if we seem a little on edge today detective but when a family of my prowl gets murdered it does make the rest of us upset. What would you like to speak with me about?”
    Keegan set her notepad on the table and grabbed the pen out of her shirt pocket before beginning. “Did you know of anyone who might have wanted to harm the Barr family?”
    “Inside the prowl?” Bryton asked. His eyes grew wide and furious that the investigators could think that someone in his prowl could do something so vile.
    “Not necessarily inside the prowl,” Keegan amended. “It could be someone that they had been having trouble with, mean ing human or other supernatural beings.”
    Bryton tangled his fingers together before humming underneath his breath. “I haven’t heard of any troubles with anyone inside of the prowl. If there had been, I would have taken care of the issue, or issues, before it have gotten this far. As for any trouble s going on outside of the prowl, I’m not going to be much of a help to your investigation detective. Both Cody and Alice have been less than present at any meetings that we have held. It’s understandable with a new child but I haven’t had much one on one time with either of them since they found out that Alice was pregnant.”
    “Are there any members that are closer to the Barrs that might have any idea of something going on that could have prompted something like this?”
    Bryton narrowed his eyes before he shook his head, “Like I said, they haven’t been all that present in prowl activities since they found out Alice was pregnant and even less so since Connor was born.”
    Keegan was a little taken aback by what Bryton was telling her. She might not know much about shifters and specific group behaviors but she knew enough that something didn’t seem right. She knew that werewolves spent copious amount of time together. They thrived on it. Even from what she had learned about dragons from Gary, she knew that he needed to be able to spend time with other dragons. It calmed him. To have an alpha just be okay with two members of his prowl to drift away didn’t seem right to her.
    “I see the wheels spinning detective,” Bryton smirked, “a prowl is nothing like other shifting communities. Leopards by nature, as you should know, are solitary creatures. Just because we are partly human that doesn’t make us all that different. There are some of us who thrive on community but some, like the Barrs, did better on their own. I am not going to take that from them. Especially when they are building their own family. Did I check in with them? Yes, that’s my job. Did they have friends within the prowl? Yes but they weren’t close enough to actually want to share their lives with anyone. Did they have enemies? What