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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off of the walls of the

a taunt as he takes a

put him up to it, didn’t you?” he

was so

keeping you on

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

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

Absolutely full of it.”

Daniel just chuckles again. “Then explain this to me: why,

chef…” he leans in, his breath foul with the scent of

room? He

cash

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

a liar,” I say,

sabotage me, and what now?

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