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“Don’t you need your wallet?” Charlie asked.
“No. You never take your ID with you.”
“Oh, okay,” he said, taking his money out of his wallet, and handing it to Janie, too.
“I’ll call when I can, love,” Bane said, kissing her before he followed Charlie to Havoc’s truck and climbed in.
“Welcome aboard the ‘don’t fuck with Daisy train’,” Havoc said as Bane got in. “Next stop New Orleans.”
“Where in New Orleans is this?” Bane asked.
“Bayou St. John. Fucker has a big expensive home right on it.”
Lucien, who was riding in the back seat leaned forward. “They’re gator meat.”
“Not until I have a chance at them,” Bane growled.
“Same!” Charlie insisted.
“I tried to get him to stay home. He refused,” Havoc told Bane.
“Just because he’s human don’t mean he can’t do some damage,” Bane said. “Now, somebody want to tell me what these people did to Daisy, and why there’s more than one?”
“Her professor seduced her. Told her everything a girl wants to hear. Had an affair with her for a lot of her college time. Told her he was single, he loved her, she was his future and you know the drill. His wife found out and had a melt down. Stalked Daisy everywhere she went, told everybody Daisy seduced him and was a whore and a home wrecker, screaming at her in public. And the best part is that he told everybody his wife was right and all but drove Daisy to run home for shame.”
“Daisy said she came home to get away from the constant harassment, but she never told anybody here except Emmalyn and Analise because of the embarrassment and humiliation. She said she should have known better, and doesn’t know why she didn’t. She believed every word he said and she loved him. Then his wife found out and it all blew up and he blamed her. We’ve been investigating. Seems Daisy isn’t the first he’s taken advantage of. But somehow, it’s always swept under the rug,” Charlie said.
“Why did the wife target Daisy so heavily when it’s not the first time?” Bane asked.
“Maybe she don’t know about the rest,” Havoc said. “Either way, I figure they both deserve a bit of shifter payback.”
“He’s a fucking professor. These kids’ welfare is in his hands, and he’s taking advantage of them,” Bane growled.
“Yep, and messed up Daisy so bad that she won’t even talk about finishing her degree. They stole everything from her. And what’s with the bitch wife following her to her classes, to her dorm, to the freaking store and screaming at her the whole time, telling strangers that she fucked her husband and tried to steal him, and is a home wrecker because she knowingly had an affair with him? She fucking knew the man started the whole fuckingthing and harassed Daisy when she should have fucking been targeting her own fucking husband. And the more upset Daisy became, the better the bitch liked it,” Havoc said.
Bane slowly turned his head back and forth, cracking the tendons in it, while grinding his teeth. “It’s wrong to kill a woman, right?”
“I really want to press charges on her for stalking, harassment, and anything else we can find. I want to file complaints with the university and get him fired and his credibility ruined. But I just don’t think it would cause them enough damage. Fear might. Fear might make them so afraid they run. Uproot their entire lives and run. I’ll wait for them to get settled and send whatever university or school he ends up with a letter telling them to check into his history of seducing female students,” Charlie said.
“Charlie, you’re probably going to want to stay in the truck,” Bane said.
“Why the hell does everybody think I’m weak just because I can’t change into an animal?” he demanded. “So, I’m human? So what? I still love Daisy. I still have the right to put this bastard in his place, right along with his fucking vindictive wife!”
“You’re thinking of legal, justifiable actions. That’s not how we handle things. Should the woman have been mad? Yeah. Should she have run my daughter out of town and humiliated her to every single person that happened to witness the fucking banshee in action? No! Her husband is where her anger should have lain. Daisy didn’t know she existed. He’s the one that told Daisy they were divorced. And he’s the one that made a vow to the bitch, not Daisy,” Bane said. “I don’t know what you were thinking was going to happen, but this isn’t going to be a lodge a complaint kind of experience.”
“I think I should just kill him to start with. And we’ll see how it works out with her, maybe she’ll get caught in the cross fire,” Lucien said.
They drove along quietly for a while before Havoc glanced over at Bane. “You think he was her mate? I mean, I know Charlie’s her mate, probably. But my dad had two.”
“Maybe. Could be why she couldn’t read him. And Maverik couldn’t read his first mate. He had no clue she was screwing around on him, until he’d have had to be blind to miss it. Then Bam couldn’t read Everly. Maybe that’s why Daisy trusted this bastard so much without question. She sensed he was her mate and put all her trust in him.”
They got quiet again, but then Bane started to talk to no one in particular. “You know, she’s a grown woman. She can do whatever she wants to do. But she’s innocent, and she’s trusting. And he fucking took advantage of that. He’s a goddamn teacher that’s supposed to keep his fucking hands off the students! Then for his wife to stalk her and harass her that way. There’s no excuse. You don’t get to be a fucking professor who seduces your students with multiple complaints, without your wife knowing it. She knew. And she was sick of it which is why she targeted Daisy. Had Daisy been Emmalyn, or Hellen, the whole fucking college would have known and they’d have been begging her to back off. Instead, they found a sweet, vulnerable innocent in Daisy, and they broke her. She never even had a fucking boyfriend before she went off to college. That fucker took advantage of her.”
“Which is why they’re gator meat,” Lucien said.
Bane lifted his hand and held it over his head.
Lucien slapped his hand against Bane’s.
