Abby

My body feels as though it doesn’t belong to me as I stalk to the breakroom. I

feel like a puppet on strings that have been cut, like my limbs are made of lead

and my body might give out from beneath me at any moment.

When I’m alone in the breakroom once again, though, I can’t contain my fury

any longer.

“Dammit!” The word explodes out of my mouth, and without thinking, I whirl

around and let my shoe connect with the wall. There’s a faint but satisfying

crack, and when I pull away, there’s a slight dent where I unleashed my rage.

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It’s almost laughable, seeing how small the dent is. It’s like my own body won’t

even do what I want, let alone the ingredients on that stage out there.

My mind is whirling with so many thoughts that I barely even register the door

creaking open. But then that venomous voice, that voice that I’ll hear in my

nightmares for years to come, slices through the air like an arrow whizzing past

my ear.

“Oh, Abby,” Daniel says, the sneer audible in his voice without me even having

to look at him. I can picture him without even turning around, that horrendous

corners of his lips.

I hiss, leaning on the counter,

him.

he says, coming closer

concerned, aren’t I?”

respond, but it seems as though that doesn’t satisfy Daniel.

beginning to crumble. “Boy, that sure

know, maybe it really should’ve been you dropping

have

my fists, my nails digging into my palms despite the

pain anchors me, if only a little. I can’t

letting him see

ever,

isn’t it? You

a—”

whirl around to face him, my eyes ablaze,

out next is

nothing but a stupid little slut who belongs

culinary world,” he hisses.

inside of me.

won. I close the distance between us, my eyes shooting daggers at

with the force of

chef. And an even worse

that infuriating, cocky smirk of a man who

“Struck

muscles in my arm tense. Before I

my hand poised to slap him across the

deserves it. He’s a rat,

not only sabotaged me and Karl, but he laughed while doing it, and now

nerve to spit slurs in my face

eyes flick down. He quickly glances at

flicker of doubt in his gaze, the realization that he

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