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."

started whispering to

good and I didn't get sick from it. Perhaps something else has

poor little girl. It doesn't look like her parents are acting. Who would

hearing this, the man let out a deep sigh and

The food in that

would he come here to buy a cake, when he has his own cakes?" a man asked curiously when he recognized the sulking father to be the owner of the Teddy Bear Bakery.

rattled for a moment. However, he quickly composed himself and said, "Yes, I am the owner of that bakery. But I noticed that this shop was very popular so I came here to try some of the cakes. I never expected something like this to

words had made sense and his daughter was still lying on the ground in a coma. The bystanders took pity on him and began to believe his story. They started to side with the weeping parents.

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in front of her shop. She wasn't fazed

at the couple who were crouching beside the unconscious girl and recognized that

about Ashley's bakery and she wasn't stupid.

each other and Ashley was convinced that this was all just a ploy from the owners of the other bakery to defame

shop. That way, there would be only one bakery left

to deal with their competitors. Each time a new bakery opened, they would play the same trick and

why there was only one bakery in the whole

his trick wouldn't work on Ashley

to Ellie, who was standing

took out her phone, he immediately jumped to his feet and slapped the phone out of Ellie's hand causing it to

are you doing? Stay away from my daughter. Are you trying to hurt her? She is unconscious because of you. Why are you so mean?" the man chided, pointing at Ashley.