Chasing His Kickass Luna Back by Jane Above Story

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Abby

I feel frozen to my spot as the judges make their way toward Daniel’s station.

The grin stretched across his face almost makes me feel sick, and it’s all I can

do not to run off the stage right now.

“Wow,” Vanessa says as she takes the first bite of Daniel’s dish, which looks

leaps and bounds ahead of mine just by presentation alone. “Really, Daniel;

wow. Despite everything, you created a phenomenal dish.”

“Thank you so much,” Daniel says, his eyes flickering toward me. “You know,

with my sous chef’s wrist in so much pain, it was difficult. But we made it.”

Enter title…

Next, the judges begin making their way toward me, and I feel like I’m going to

be sick. They stop in front of my station, and I can feel the cold weight of

Logan’s gaze on me already.

“Hello, Abby,” Vanessa says, her gaze sweet as ever despite the circumstances.

“Your performance in the second round was lacking, but you’re here now. How

do you feel?”

I swallow. “I feel…” I pause, my throat cracked and dry. “I feel… Hopeful,” I

mutter. Vanessa nods in response along with the third judge, but Logan—his

face is as inscrutable as ever.

test, times feels as

Abby, the chef with the ‘violent’

his presence by my

vast and cold

says, her voice

expected from you.”

begins to set in. “I… I tried to bring

explain, but my

it’s not one of understanding. “I see what

the plate. I’m

Xavier,

I see it there before he

he adds simply, his voice

to defend my dish, to say

know the chaos

away, and yet they seem to expect the

clear and authoritative, that slices through the

we have here is a fundamental problem,” he states, his

meeting mine.

clutch the edge of my station, my knuckles whitening. “Please, enlighten me,”

that the quiver in my

“Well, to put it plainly…” He

instructions, Abby. This dish is

asked for.”

I find myself gasping for air. “But I—I don’t

“This is farro mafaldine

and mushrooms. It’s exactly what was

wrong,” Logan says with a

is not farro mafaldine with black truffle butter and

eyebrows raise, but Logan is already digging through the dish with his fork.

of black truffle

this

like a black truffle

studio suddenly seems as though all of the oxygen has

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