Prelude
Kendall heard his flight number being called.
"Well when you get this, know I love you and because I love you, I'm going to let you go." His voice cracked as he felt his heart hit the floor, bleeding. "It's going to be great. You'll probably see my work in magazines and you…" The words collected in his lungs. "Will become great." He exhaled and ended the call. He looked down and gently scooped up his heart, cradling it like a mother would her newborn child.
Jett was sulking in a stool at Telma's when James and Logan found him.
"Hey!" James briskly made his way over to Jett and clasped his shoulder.
"What do you guys want? Watching my business – my empire crumble wasn't enough? Do you want the clothes off my back too?!" Jett's words swirled dizzily in the air.
"Where's Kendall?!" James hissed.
"That loser?!" Jett scoffed hollowly.
"Listen you son of a bitch-"
"Your boyfriend isn't in Kudero, or New York for that matter! He's on his way to Paris. Thinks you don't love him anymore, so I convinced him to take up that offer. Then I also paid a visit to some modeling agencies based in and around here, leaked some private files and pictures of your past. Consider it my trump card in this game of ours. You may have ruined me, but I still win." Jett sneered.
Anger boiled under James' skin, but it was Logan who spoke up: "You know Jett? I never realized it when I was working under you, but now I can see how pathetic you really are. You may have had all the power and wealth running this town, but when you take all of it away, you're nothing but a spiteful man that has lost his heart to corruption. You spend most of your time drinking and you have nothing, no one to fall back on. You lost the game before it ever started." At that, Logan turned and started to leave.
Jett stared at the ground solemnly, "Here." Jett threw his Porsche keys at James, "The flight isn't leaving till 8:00. If you hurry you could make it before it leaves."
James stared at the keys in his hand. He looked back at Jett and he felt something inside him twitch. He jogged outside and hopped in Jett's car, which was parked in front of Telma's bar.
"Jett gave you the keys?" Logan asks in disbelief.
"My dad always told me, 'Even the darkest villains have some light in them, if you know where to look.'" James started the ignition and the engine roared to life.
"You buckled?" James asks, earning a quick nod from Logan.
The tires screeched against the asphalt as they burned down the roadway.
"Let's go find Kendall!"