Chapter 32

“I have to take Johnny out of his own head. If I were to leave it to him, he’d be coding day and night when he has a project. Harvey sometimes manages to bypass me and gets to Johnny, saddling him with some new application to develop. Johnny is incapable of saying no to Harvey when Harvey starts up with ‘I’ll have to do layoffs, et cetera.’ When Harvey manages to speak to him, Johnny forgets he’s supposed to ask me first. Next time, I told Harvey, I’m going to fire his ass, and when Johnny listens to Harvey, I whoop his.” Caden took another sip of out of a can of Coke Zero.

“How is that stuff? Davey was disappointed when he saw the hotel had only Pepsi. Yet the kid barely blinked. I had to look very closely to see how he felt. He gets two little lines between his brows, but otherwise he schools his face completely.” Jake drank some of his beer.

“I like it. It tastes like regular Coke instead of diet. I drink it all the time. I don’t like beer.” Caden took another sip.