Devil's Due

Devil's Due

Fame doesn’t save Jemini—it starves them.

When the network’s tight per-diem rules leave the band hungry, broke, and bickering, Jayra Jenkins steps in as the reluctant glue holding everyone together. But behind his jokes and authority, he hides a private truth: he’s still healing from the suicide attempt that nearly ended him. Only a few know the real scars—and fewer understand the cost of the years he lost.

As the competition heats up, pressure exposes fractures:

Tessa grows closer to Jayra yet battles jealousy and insecurity.

Leo spirals between old resentment and deep loyalty.

The band mocks, teases, and idolizes Jayra in equal measure, unaware how fragile he truly is.

Meanwhile, Sweetwater’s past stalks the present.

Jayra’s long-buried family secrets rise—starting with the revelation that J.R. drilled oil on Jayra’s land, secretly, illegally, and out of desperation. The truth forces a reckoning between the men, culminating in one of the most emotionally charged confrontations in the series. Instead of revenge, Jayra offers grace, choosing family over paperwork, and rearranging his entire identity in the process.

But the ghosts don’t stop there.

Stories emerge of the months he spent in a coma, the crushing medical debt that nearly ruined Aunt Polly, and the dark, uncanny “other presence” Leo witnessed in Jayra’s eyes after he woke. These memories haunt the band as they learn just how much trauma hides beneath Jayra’s bravado.

Throughout it all, perception becomes the real villain:

Fan accounts, viral clips, cruel tweets, and misinterpretations twist every argument and meltdown into ammunition. Even everyday chaos—pizza fights, banter, old pranks, the infamous car-wash disaster—becomes part of a public narrative none of them can control.

And then, just when the band stabilizes

—Jezebel “Jezzy” Jäger returns.

Her arrival threatens to rip open old loyalties, new rivalries, and the fragile balance Tessa and Jayra have built.

In Devil’s Due, every secret demands payment.

Every friendship is tested.

Every buried truth claws its way to the surface.

And Jayra finally learns that sometimes the hardest fight isn’t the one on stage—it’s the one against the past he thought he buried.

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