The Boutique Owner Told Me to Stay Quiet Before I Heard Something I Was Not Meant to Hear

down the street a dog was barking. The evening was settling in.

Then Ethan’s phone buzzed. A message from Brian: If you think this ends here, you are wrong.

That changed the temperature in the air immediately. Lily’s head came up. Ethan read the message and understood, before the rest of us caught up, what it meant. Brian had access to the vendor contracts.continue reading …