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

tugging at the corners of his lips. “Having a little

even start, Daniel,” I hiss, leaning on the counter, still not turning to

him.

chuckles. “What?” he says,

concerned, aren’t I?”

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

feel my resolve beginning

know, maybe it really should’ve been

It would have saved

my fists, my nails digging into

if

him

ever, his words

it?

a—”

him, my eyes ablaze, my heart pounding in my chest.

out next is vile,

but a stupid little slut who belongs in the bedroom, not

culinary world,” he hisses.

shatters inside of me.

distance between us,

hiss, my voice trembling with the force of my

a chef. And an even worse excuse

cocky smirk of a man who believes

won. “Struck

tense. Before I can

poised to slap him

it. He’s a rat, a cockroach, a

Karl, but he laughed while doing it,

to spit slurs

down. He quickly glances

of doubt in his gaze,

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