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…

chuckle bounces off of the walls of the breakroom.

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

You put him up to it,

two was so awful, surely you

into keeping you on

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

do any such thing, and neither would

Absolutely full of it.”

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

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

room? He looked pretty

cash into

my heart racing, a mix of anger

I say, my

and what now? You’ll accuse

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