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Leeroy turned and rested against the counter with a pleased grin stretching across his lips. “They say the pixie dust always made for great sex. I guess they weren’t lying.”
    Keegan snorted out a laugh. “Really?”
    “She looked like she was an innocent, vanilla girl. But her? Oh hell, I thought I was going to die of dehydration.”
    “Going to see her again?” Keegan highlighted a few important details that Leeroy got out of people talking about Mason Mills.
    “Probably, she’s the first girl who didn’t care I was a Djinn.” Leeroy shrugged before he set about doctoring his coffee just how he liked it. Sugar and Tabasco. “She wasn’t afraid of my hands. Anyways, Mason Mills gets around apparently. He makes rounds around the district and most people just stay away from him because they don’t know what to expect from the guy.”
    “Everyone except Cody and Alice Barr,” Gary interjected as he hopped the last few steps of the stairwell and landed smoothly in the basement heading straight for coffee. “Apparently he and Alice were the two who got Mills banned from Diyo’s and a few other less than reputable places in the district under the claim that someone needed to show him not all supernaturals were animals. I can’t say I fault Cody’s logic because Mills was a bit of a monster. But here’s the thing, Mills cleaned up. It took some time but he isn’t the dictator in training that everyone was afraid of.”
    Gary didn’t bother with any other flavoring except the Tabasco sauce before he chugged the coffee straight down and started making another cup full. “I headed to The Cave last night to see what they thought about the Barr’s death. Hamilton won’t allow any were into his place ever since Mason tried to start something with the rest of us. Apparently there were too many hormones flying around so he keeps it dragons only.”
    “And you guys didn’t dragon-out and burn him to ashes?” Keegan teased Gary.
    “If I didn’t want to go to prison for lighting the rest of the district on fire I would have volunteered to turn the jerk to ashes. But alas,” Gary sighed, “I never actually met the man. I have a boss who is demanding enough that I’d rather go home and play a round of WOW and hit the sack rather than go out for a beer.”
    “You are just a geek with no life.” Melinda commented as she flopped down in the chair behind her desk. She looked over at Keegan, “I guess they’ve told you about Mason Mills?”
    “Yup.” Keegan nodded. “What I would like to know is why I heard it from them first and not from you? He’s in your pack.”
    “Just because we share the same alpha doesn’t mean that I know everything that’s going on, Keegan. Part of our job here at SIU is to be the neutral party. People don’t gossip with the wolf who works for the SIU.” Melinda shrugged. “Plus Mason wouldn’t have been friendly to me even if I had met him since I’m considered a half-breed. He wasn’t the greatest fan of those who aren’t completely wolf, up until recently. But I did make a list of a few people you might want to check out because they fall in line with Mills’ pervious ideas of what an ideal supernatural should be.”
    Keegan took the proffered paper and sighed. Five more wolves added to the list that they would need to check out. “Anyone see if maybe there was anyone or anything else that Cody or Alice Barr got into trouble with or could have possibly gotten mixed up in?”
    “All of Cody’s troubles lay with people who were like Mason Mills once upon a time.” Gary answered. “Everyone else claimed the guy got along with everyone and everything under the rainbow. He didn’t even pick fights when he had a little too much to drink. He just didn’t particularly like the radicals.”
    “ That only leaves us with Alice. Homicide has probably already checked out her friends but they haven’t sent anything to us so someone needs to check her out. Maybe someone