“No,” I said with a firm shake of my head. My arms were crossed in front of me, and I had to resist blowing a curl out of my face or risk losing the seriousness of my answer.
Karina just smiled back at me. “That’s right,” she said with a nod, and my shoulders slumped in relief. “Three pairs is not nearly enough. Ten pairs, please. In all of these colours. Two in this one,” Karina pointed at the fabric in front of her, and I could see the excitement on the face of the woman she was talking to as she mentally calculated how much she was going to make off of us.
“I said, no!” I protested.
“And I agreed with you!”
My teeth ground together, and I wondered how I ever thought I could like this woman. Except, I did like this woman. She was just doing far too much. “I don’t need that many sets
