Abby

“Your sous chef… I saw him trying to bribe the judges earlier.”

Daniel’s words land on me like a lead weight. Karl? Bribing the judges? He

wouldn’t do something like that. When would he have even had the time? Why

wouldn’t he have told me?

My gaze locks with Daniel’s, and disbelief tightens around my chest as though

some invisible hand is gripping my heart, squeezing tighter and tighter.

“What do you mean by that?” I demand, my voice trembling despite my

desperate attempts to keep myself steady, to maintain control in a situation

that’s making me feel like the world is tilting on its axis.

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bounces off of the walls of the breakroom. His

taunt as he takes a step closer, narrowing

put him up to it, didn’t

during round two was so awful, surely

the judges into keeping you on the

they feel like they’ll pop

such thing, and neither would he. You’re full of it,

Absolutely full of it.”

again. “Then explain this to me: why, during

sous chef…” he leans in,

judges’ room? He

wad of cash into his

my heart racing, a mix

my veins. “You’re a liar,” I say, my voice

off. First you sabotage me, and what

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