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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the walls of the breakroom.

like a taunt as he takes a step closer, narrowing his

you don’t know. You put

performance during round two was so awful, surely you thought you

judges into keeping you on

are so wide they feel like they’ll pop out

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

Absolutely full of it.”

explain this to me: why, during the

I see your sous chef…” he leans in, his breath foul

the judges’ room? He looked

cash

recoil away from him, my heart racing, a mix of

say, my

me off. First you sabotage me, and what now? You’ll

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