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.

Enter title…

of the

like a taunt as he takes a step closer, narrowing

know. You put him up

during round two was so awful, surely you thought you

judges into keeping you on the

wide they feel like they’ll pop out of my head. “Never,”

and neither would he. You’re full

Absolutely full of it.”

explain this to me: why, during

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

into the judges’ room? He looked pretty

of cash into

from him, my heart racing, a mix of anger and dread

a liar,” I say, my

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

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