Jax is a cop by choice and to honor his father who was killed in the line of duty. His allegiance to his fellow officers and his code of ethics are the ruling factors of his life. At a hideous crime scene, when he finds an unconscious young man holding a bloody machete, Jax confronts a quandary. He can hardly believe this beautiful youth could have committed this atrocity, but if not, who did?<br /><br />Gabriel awakens to blood and horror&#x2014;and to a total blank of who he is, what has happened, and how he got there. He finds himself charged with horrific multiple murders. Unless he can regain his memory, how can he prove he&#x2019;s not guilty?<br /><br />Protective custody soon assumes new aspects as Jax and Gabriel develop a strange friendship that wants to blossom into much more. Can someone be guilty by innocence?

Guilty By Innocence

They drove across town by a roundabout route and again Pancho let him out of the car, this time by a park. He was to leave the backpack in a certain trashcan and then go back to the other side of the park and wait. It seemed like a long time before he saw a man, supposedly taking the full bags out of the trashcans and putting in new ones. He had a cart with squeaky wheels. The one bag went on top and the rest underneath the top shelf of the cart. About then, Poncho drove up, tapped the horn, and Gabriel got back in the car.


Then things began to get fuzzy. He thought they drove around a while and finally went out on the northeast side of town close to the army base. Not long before dark they pulled up at the end of a block of plain little houses, mostly a bit rundown and some vacant. Another vehicle came in behind them. Pancho got out and went back to the other car. He told Gabriel to wait where he was.


Chapter 10