Chapter 121

Monday afternoon, Juan prepared himself for the verbal assault as he settled in the office with Jodi and Jackie. He had asked Matt not tell the twins about Sam Ellis. Matt had said that it should come from Juan since they still own a part of the business, so they had a right to know. Juan didn’t want them to know because he knew they would blame him somehow. Sam was Juan’s friend not some random guest off the highway. In the end, Juan had refused to call them about it and told Matt to do what he felt was right in regards to informing the twins.

“What’s up?” Juan asked.

“I think you know what’s up,” Jackie said.

“Jackie, what happened yesterday couldn’t be avoided. I don’t know how you think I could have prevented -” Juan began.

“Of course, you couldn’t stop it,” Jackie interrupted. “We came here to see how you were and how we can help.”

“Yeah. You can’t stop someone who really wants to kill themselves – or partici