Abby

I’m sitting by myself in the breakroom, my fingers wrapped around a cardboard

cup of coffee from the vending machine. The coffee has already gone cold, but

it’s not like I was drinking it anyway. The taste was too bitter for what I need right

now.

Karl stepped out just a few minutes ago. He said he had to make a call, and I’m

too numb to question it. Right now, I welcome the silence of the breakroom. I

needed it after that little display on the stage.

I can still feel the heat from the stage lights, the biting sting of Logan’s harsh

words. “You should know your ingredients.” His voice replays in my head like a

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record, his voice pulsing alongside the pounding

now.

Bryan strides in,

distracted nod before he murmurs an apology and

for his call. My solitude is

to my chagrin, Daniel enters the breakroom

stops short when he sees me, his eyes lip up with

blood boil.

there, Abby,” he says, pouring

Black, just as I expected. Just like his

do with it?” The accusation leaps from

can weigh the consequences.

turns, leaning back against the counter, his eyes narrowing into

don’t play

were switched. You were the only

shouldn’t finish. It’s too much of a

evidence.

which I didn’t, you should have

her ingredients by smell, by taste.”

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