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…

bounces off of the walls

a step

don’t know. You put him up to it, didn’t you?”

round two was so awful, surely

into keeping you

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

any such thing, and neither would

Absolutely full of it.”

again. “Then explain this

in, his breath foul with the scent

room? He looked

of cash

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

liar,” I say, my voice

you sabotage me, and what now? You’ll accuse me

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