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A Bonafide Good Guy
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28 illustrations
Gene, a large tattooed biker with shaggy dark hair, sitting at a bar with a whiskey sour01

Chapter 1

Accountability

Ted Polmey eating at the back of a neighborhood pizzeria with two imposing bodyguards in black suits behind him02

Chapter 2

Lunch

Gene eating loaded fries with a fork at a shaded picnic table outside Trashy’s03

Chapter 3

Break

Gene exploring the graffiti-covered upstairs hallway of an eerie farmhouse04

Chapter 4

Curiosity

Gene taking a tense phone call outside the farmhouse barn at twilight05

Chapter 5

Business

Gene standing with his hands raised as Captain Henderson and police surround him under red and blue lights06

Chapter 6

Busted

Gene sitting across Captain Charles Henderson’s desk while officers work throughout the busy open police station behind them07

Chapter 7

Release

Gene and Kristy Lee sizing each other up through the mirror behind the Lounge bar with their drinks and five hundred dollars between them08

Chapter 8

Meeting

A bruised Gene leaning casually against his kitchen counter with his ankles crossed while drinking coffee in the morning light09

Chapter 9

Chores

The battered white passenger van reversing into a gray sedan at a red-light intersection as the sedan’s hood buckles and steam erupts10

Chapter 10

Protection

A battered Gene defiantly eating a shrimp across from Ted Polmey while three security men watch in Portia’s private dining room11

Chapter 11

Rebellion

Gene quietly directing Captain Charles Henderson’s attention toward a woman in sunglasses and her young son in a hospital waiting room12

Chapter 12

Duty

Gene and Kristy Lee sharing drinks and an intimate conversation on his porch swing late at night13

Chapter 13

Family

Patricia in a fitted black cocktail dress and heels warning Gene to stay home from his front porch as his damaged kitchen stands behind him14

Chapter 14

Party

Gene standing alone outside the Marquette Hotel as fire trucks arrive, trouserless officials mill around, and members of the Village load passenger vans15

Chapter 15

Horror

Gene standing guilty and overwhelmed as women from the Village angrily confront him while their homes burn behind them16

Chapter 16

Fire

Gene fighting Te and Tay amid shattered glass, motorcycles, overturned furniture, and flying poker chips inside the neon-lit Backside Lounge17

Chapter 17

Fight

Kristy Lee using a spring-loaded medical injector to sedate a battered Gene while safely lowering him beside the bed18

Chapter 18

Dreaming

Kristy Lee sprinting from the Polmey Foundation Gala with Gene’s flaming-skull motorcycle helmet as Timothy Vale struggles to rise behind her19

Chapter 19

Multiview

A battered, tattooed Gene eating a taco and talking with the older owner of a colorful food truck parked on a quiet suburban street20

Chapter 20

Tacos

Kringle holding court from a red velvet throne inside his Christmas-themed biker bar as Gene, Kristy Lee, and the assembled bikers stand before him21

Chapter 21

Friends

Gene and Kristy Lee resting together on a narrow army cot among old lockers, books, and military surplus in the hidden back room of Tabitha’s shop22

Chapter 22

Calm

Gene and Kristy Lee charging through tear gas, fireworks, bikers, police, and flying food toward Ted Polmey’s glass tower in downtown Paradise23

Chapter 23

Storm

An armed Gene and Kristy Lee holding hands and watching blond-haired John warily inside Ted Polmey’s luxury elevator24

Chapter 24

Abra

Kristy Lee grips Gene’s arm as his gun lowers toward Abby emerging from a red silk divider while Rachel watches uncertainly in Ted Polmey’s penthouse25

Chapter 25

Cadabra

Gene’s tattooed hands brace against a shattered penthouse window as he looks down at blue-eyed Abby falling and dissolving into smoke above the city26

Chapter 26

Lead

A battered Gene and Little Ray Ray sit beside the koi pond inside Ray’s boxing gym, with Ray Ray wearing a white shirt and squeezing a gym towel27

Chapter 27

Molting

Gene and Kristy Lee raise defiant middle fingers from opposite sides of a yellow topless Jeep as Rachel rides behind them beneath a bright blue sky28

Chapter 28

Accountable