CHAPTER TWO
HARPER
After I text Ethan, I feel better. Knowing there’s only one presentation left and I’ll be home tomorrow has calmed me down. I’ve learned a few new things today and feel inspired to get back to work, but being here hasn’t been rainbows and sunshine. When I joined the Texas Small Business Association, founded to help local small businesses, I was so excited. I’ve made connections I wouldn’t have otherwise and gained a new perspective on profit margins and losses.
While I enjoy going most of the time, sometimes I don’t. Especially when I have to be around and talk to my main competitor in the goat soap business—Shayla Kenzington. Her mother Charlene is the president of TSBA, and it’s why Shayla thinks she’s the queen bee know-it-all. Charlene is just as uppity and full o
