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

leaning on the counter, still not turning

him.

he says, coming

concerned, aren’t I?”

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

can feel my resolve beginning

really should’ve been

It would have

nails digging into my

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

of letting him

ever, his words

then again, it’s fitting, isn’t it? You never belonged here. You’re nothing

a—”

face him, my eyes ablaze, my

spits out next is

but a stupid little slut who belongs in

culinary world,” he hisses.

something shatters inside of me. My resolve

close the distance between

voice trembling with the force

chef. And an even worse excuse

smile only widens, that infuriating, cocky smirk of a man who believes

already won. “Struck a nerve,

my arm tense. Before I can

hand poised to

deserves it. He’s a rat, a cockroach, a stain

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

the nerve to spit slurs in my face like it’s

glances at

of doubt in his gaze, the realization that he

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