Abby
As Karl speaks, my fingers worry the hem of my white chef’s coat, now no
longer pristine but splattered with sauce and tiny stains and the remains of
haphazardly cooked meals. It feels like a perfect representation of my inner
world right now: once untarnished and lily-white, but now stained and weathered
from the trials I’ve been through today.
We’re still standing in the supply closet, and the air feels thick. Karl is standing
over me still, his hand pressed into the door next to my head, sandwiching me
there with his body.
Enter title…
My wolf stirs ever so slightly, but now is not the time; I just found out that Karl
tried to talk to the judges for me, and I’m not sure how to feel about it.
“Abby…” he begins, his voice trailing off for a moment as his eyes search mine.
Finally, he pushes away from the door and crosses the small room, running his
hand through his hair for what feels like the millionth time in the past few
minutes.
“Just tell me, Karl,” I murmur, blinking away the tears that are threatening to
spill.
He pauses, then draws in a deep breath, and turns to face me again. “Abby,
yes, I did talk to Logan; but I never tried to bribe anybody. I hope you can
believe me in that regard.”
because despite the whirlwind that this competition has become, I
that. Karl has no reason to lie to me right
promised all those
Karl. But why talk to him? What
can tell
chef, Abby. The
deserve the way he
The word hangs between
he looks away for a brief
faces me again, it’s
that he wants to tell me
out.
he’s got this idea about you, Abby. He doesn’t see things clearly.
see that you are
competition. That’s it.”
heart races, and I don’t know what to say. There’s
dread knotting itself around my stomach: gratitude
but also dread because I know that, whatever
are, nothing Karl can say would
this doomed
what happened with the sous chef?” I ask, my voice barely
whisper. “What happened, really?”
shadow crosses Karl’s face. “He was tampering with
truffles. I caught him in the
out of his hand, but I swear,
truth; Karl, despite all of his overpowering
anyone in this sort of
not
didn’t believe you?” I
think
footage looks… Anyway,
won’t be
the floor unblinking, staring at my feet. Outside, I can hear
crackle to life again: “Contestants, this
two minutes. I
anything, Karl’s hand reaches out
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