Mika and I had been best friends for decades now, and if anyone knew how I operated in the world, it was her, and vice versa. But sometimes, Mika got a little cagey when it came to her business, not because she had something to hide but because she wasn’t always confident that her business choices were sound. Given that the yarn store was blowing up, both in person and online, and that she’d been able to hire two employees to help manage things, I think it was safe to say she was just fine in the business department. But I wasn’t the one who needed to be convinced of that.
So while I felt fairly certain that Mika would be really forthright about Katherine if the young woman had been in, especially since she was now missing, there was always the slim chance that my friend would clam up if
