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Selene changed in her office, and I in Max’s, and then Detective Garou met me in the conference room. He rubbed his close-cropped beard and studied me with narrowed eyes.
“Sorry to be presumptuous sir, but aren’t you…?” His accent held a hint of French, definitely more continental than English or Scottish.
“Yes, I’m Gabriel McCord, Investigator for the Lycanthrope Council.”
“Oh. Dreadfully sorry to trouble you, sir. You may go.”
“No,” I said and stopped myself from snapping at him, choosing instead to patiently explain. “I was there when the body was discovered. Question me like you would any other witness on the scene.”
“Right, then. What was the nature of your business here today?” He glanced at the clock. “And when did you arrive?”
“That’s better. I was here on official Council
