Antisocial by Heidi Cullinan

Author:Heidi Cullinan [Cullinan, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: M/M, Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9781945116094
Publisher: Heidi Cullinan
Published: 2017-08-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

THE SHRINE TO Benzaiten in the basement of Delta Eta Sigma was, in a word, a travesty.

Xander was at best a passing expert on what Shinto shrines should contain, but he was fairly certain beer bottles didn’t figure into their decoration, nor empty chip bags or other bits of garbage. What had once been carefully hung prayer requests on the peg wall beside the main body of the shrine were in tatters on the floor, and everything from the altar itself lay smashed throughout the room. The red gates—torii, to name them properly—were knocked askew, and Xander suspected he knew who had done this handiwork, because he recognized the lines of the penises scrawled onto the pillars. They were the same as the ones on his mural.

While Xander was disgusted with what he saw, Skylar and Unc appeared about to be sick. At first they simply stood and stared, dumbstruck, and then they gestured with helpless rage as they moved about the carnage.

Unc swept his arm across the room, then pressed his fingers to his lips as he shook his head. “What the fuck. I mean—what the fuck.”

“They were just down here cleaning last month.” Skylar’s voice was carefully controlled, and Xander thought he was getting a glimpse of how the man performed in his leadership role. “I saw them. I watched the cleaning committee come down, do their work, then go back up the stairs. It was the last they’d be down here before the big preparations for the fall pledges, but they were down here. And none of them would have done this.”

Xander wondered if he should point out about the graffiti, but Unc got there before he had to. Unc gestured to the penis art. “It was those fuckers we kicked out. Everybody knows where the key is. They went and got it, had themselves a goodbye party, and now it’s too late to do shit.”

Skylar’s gaze went hard and cold. “You think so? All we’ve done is enter the room. We’ve touched the doorknob. I’ll have Ms. Mary call the police right now, get in here and dust for prints.”

“You do that, and I’ll call the leadership committee. Let’s get this ball rolling and nail the bastards.”

It took an amazingly long time to get the ball rolling, and it involved the three of them giving interviews to earnest police officers who Xander was surprised would come over in the middle of the night to investigate a desecrated fraternity shrine, but then he looked around at the way the walls of the frat breathed money and decided someone had called in a favor. He didn’t think it was Skylar, either, given the way he swayed on his feet, ready to keel over from exhaustion, but nevertheless he didn’t complain, only kept on working, first answering the officers’ questions, then getting on the phone with Unc and fielding an hours-long conference call with first one set of fraternity officers and then another. It seemed this shrine was

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