Chapter 11

A ContractDaniel looked at both Joan and Santiago with eyes wide opened as he listened to all that Joan explained to me. He let out a sigh then shook his head.

“I can’t believe something this big happened to you and you didn’t bother to tell me, give me a call or something, you just…” he didn’t know what else to say. “You went to him of every other person you could ask for help” he exclaimed.

Santiago raised his arms in protest “Hey! I’m standing right here”

“I know, she isn’t your friend, she’s mine and she went to someone that she barely knew for a few weeks… days even” he said sadly.

“Daniel” she touched his arm in a friendly way but that made Santiago stand straight in alarm as he looked at how close they were. “I’m sorry, I… it was just too much for our family and I don’t want to burden anyone with our problems”

“I just feel bad that my friend was going through something that bad and I wasn’t even informed not until I was going to help them get int