Six years ago, Jarrett Kessel helped his best friend’s little brother deal with his family’s rejection when he came out. He saw potential in the tempestuous teenager. Talent. Then, they both moved on with their lives.<br><br>Now, the FBI needs Jarrett’s help. Sketch artist Eli Locke is their only lead in finding a killer, but he’s nowhere to be found. Though the Feds are convinced Jarrett is the best way to lure him out, he’s not so sure. Until they show him the web comic Eli has created, with a superhero who bears a striking resemblance to Jarrett.<br><br>When Eli gets an email out of the blue from the man who changed his life, he doesn’t even consider saying no to a meeting. Jarrett is even more amazing than he remembers, and the fact that he’s all right being the role model for the one thing that means the most to Eli is just icing on the cake. But the truth about the murder comes out, and even though he had nothing to do with it, Eli wants to run. It’s up to Jarrett to keep him from ruining his life for good, before the killer finds them both and does it first ...

Outlined in Ink

He could have asked for proof his parents were okay. He thought of that after he hit send. But the sooner Eli did this, the sooner they’d be safe again, and that was all he could focus on right now.


He’d been right about Sandora’s readiness. The response came back within a minute.


One hour. Corner of Wabash and Washington.


“That’s it?” Jarrett said. “No specifics on what’s going on with your parents, how he wants to handle the exchange, anything?”


“That’s it.” It did leave a lot of questions unanswered, and too many things to go wrong. What proof did he have Sandora would actually let his parents go?


“We couldn’t get there in an hour anyway. Tell him you need to make later arrangements.”


“The longer he has them, the more likely he is to hurt them.” He opened a reply window. “We’ll just have to break a few speed limits to get there on time.”


Chapter 52