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…

off of the

a taunt as he takes a step closer, narrowing his

put him up to it, didn’t

so awful, surely you thought you

into keeping

they feel like they’ll pop out of my

never do any such thing, and neither

Absolutely full of it.”

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

leans in, his breath foul

“going into the judges’ room? He

of cash into his

away from him, my heart racing, a

my veins. “You’re a liar,” I say,

and what now?

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