A Love Trap

Cheryl was a waitress that Greyson had recommended to Ashley. She was a pretty young girl who worked hard. Ashley thought highly of her.

"Ashley, you're finally here," Cheryl said in a shaky voice. The young girl had never been in such a situation before and was visually shaken by it. Her eyes were wide with fear and red from crying. Ashley approached her, patted the girl reassuringly on the back and asked, "What happened?"

"I am not sure. When I came here, I saw a girl lying in front of our shop and her parents said that their daughter had blacked out after she ate one of our cakes,"

Cheryl said with a worried tone in her voice.

When the father of the girl saw Ashley, he stopped crying and stood up immediately. He pointed at Ashley and shouted angrily, "You're the boss here, right?

I heard that the cakes in your shop were delicious, so I bought some vanilla cream puffs. My wife and I didn't have a chance to try them because we had something to do.

But when our daughter Jenny came home from school, she saw the cream puffs and had some and now she has passed out."

The man then turned around and looked at the crowd as he squeezed out a few tears. "I didn't expect that my daughter would get sick after eating a cake from this shop.

You'd better not buy anything from this bakery. The food here isn't safe to eat," he said indignantly.

He then turned to his daughter and bent down stroking her hair. "Oh, my poor girl. She is so young and now she is lying unconscious because she ate a cream puff from this bakery."

The girl's mother who was squatting down beside the unconscious girl shook her body and cried, "Wake up, Jenny. Please open your eyes. I can't lose you, sweetie."

onlookers started whispering to

that shop, it was really good and I didn't get sick from it. Perhaps something else has made his daughter sick," a

girl. It doesn't look like her parents are acting. Who would use their own

this, the man let out a deep sigh and shut up.

telling the truth? The food in that

Why would he come here to buy a cake, when he has his own cakes?" a

rattled for a moment. However, he quickly composed himself and said, "Yes, I am the owner of that bakery. But I noticed that

The bystanders took pity on him and began to believe his story. They started to side with the weeping

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the forming crowd in front of her shop. She wasn't fazed by their remarks and skeptical

who were crouching beside the unconscious girl and recognized that they

Ashley's bakery and she wasn't stupid. She didn't

shops were in stiff competition with each other and Ashley was convinced that this was all just a ploy from the owners of the other bakery to defame

ruined and she and Ellie would have to close the shop. That way, there would be only one bakery left

was this trick had been used by the couple before to deal with their competitors. Each time a new bakery opened,

there was only one bakery in the

his trick wouldn't work on Ashley

on the little girl and called out to Ellie, who was standing in the entrance of their bakery. "Call 120, Ellie,

Noticing that Ellie took out her phone, he immediately jumped to his feet and slapped

from my daughter. Are you trying to hurt her? She is unconscious because of you. Why are you so mean?" the