Let's Escape: Let's Connect, #2.5

By Kelly Jensen

After enduring the many mishaps of online dating, you'd think Dan could come up with a better plan. But Dan being very much Dan, he did not. So, now, Trevor, Sean, Robin, and Dan are locked inside something called a Time Trap and it's pretty much his fault.

 

But meeting up for coffee, just coffee, would have been so boring, wouldn't it?

 

Join the guys from the Let's Connect series in one final adventure to have coffee, just coffee—right after they figure out a way to get back to the present.

 

"Let's Escape" is an epilogue to the Let's Connect series. While the story may be enjoyed alone, the series is best read in order.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kelly Jensen
• Release date: Apr 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215997598

Kelly Jensen

Born in Australia and raised everywhere else, Kelly Jensen now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter and herd of four cats. After disproving the theory that water only spins counter-clockwise around drains north of the equator, she turned her attention to more productive pursuits such as reading, writing about reading and writing stories of her own.

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Author’s Note

I originally intended to write this story shortly after publishing Let's Go Out. Back then, the idea was to have all four of my main characters meet up for coffee, or perhaps at one of Kaleb's shows. But I kept putting it off because, well, the idea of writing four guys chatting around a cafe table wasn't all that inspiring. What would they talk about? What would be the point?

I love writing epilogue stories and extras, but I like even the shortest fluff to have meaning. For the episode to add something that hasn't been said before. So, I have spent the past few months considering and tossing aside ideas for Dan, Trevor, Robin, and Sean. If Dan and Robin had talked about wine instead of coffee, I could have had them tour a winery. If they were better friends, and this coffee date had already happened multiple times, they could maybe vacation together. 

Anything other than an hour around a cafe table.

Finally, one day I hit on it. Dan being Dan meant he would fret about the same thing that bugged me: that awkward hour around the cafe table. So, he booked something different—an experience—thinking it would be a fun way for the four of them to bond. Of course, Dan being Dan, he didn't think it all the way through. By the time he did, they were locked inside something called a Time Trap.

Trevor

Trevor watched Dan pace the short section of pavement between the parking lot and the corner of Germantown Avenue. He had, in no way, imagined that a proposal of marriage would change him. That it might magically calm Dan, turn him into a man who did not need to turn short circles.

Was he talking to himself?

Trevor peered at Dan’s lips. Yep, they were moving.

Though tempted to lean in and listen, Trevor let him go. He liked watching him pace. Loved Dan’s energy. Had asked this man to spend the rest of his life with him because where Trevor sometimes did suffer from inertia, Dan only ever thought he did.

A scuff on the pavement behind him pulled Trevor’s attention away from Dan and back toward the parking lot. Two men approached, one tall with warm brown skin and a killer smile, the other pale, bespeckled, and anxious. Batman and Robin. Or Sean and Robin.

Should he let Dan know he could stop spinning now? Nah. Where was the fun in that?

Putting on a smile, Trevor extended a hand.

Sean offered a firm shake. You must be Trevor.

And you would be Sean.

"Could be, would be,