Chapter 59

Kimberly's POV As soon as the last bell sounded, I blew a ball of relief and stuffed my bag with as many books as it could take in. Right at the doorway, as I swished out through the classroom doors, my ringing phone buzzed. A glance at the screen; Emily. I has told her not to bother me whenever I was in school. I hit to answer it. "Emily?” “Boss, I have a problem." Her voice was tight. "Some customer just came in and told me he wants to buy everything in stock." I raised an eyebrow, shifting my bag again on my shoulder. "That's odd." A sale that big by rights should have been a good thing, yet something in Emily's tone kicked my instincts up. "So what's the problem?” A pause, then, "He said he won't place the order until he meets the boss of K Boutique." What had been unease coagulated into something sharper. "Who is he?" Emily hemmed and finally let the name fall like a bombshell that sent my pulse sky-high. "Daniel Reynolds." The wind was knocked out of my lungs. Daniel. A second ra