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 one another.

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

like her parents are acting. Who would use their

let out a

man telling the truth? The food in that shop

Bear Bakery? Why would he come here to buy a cake, when he has his own

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

the ground in a coma. The bystanders took

...

her shop. She wasn't fazed by their

unconscious girl and recognized that they were the owners of

scornful remarks about Ashley's bakery and she wasn't stupid. She didn't buy

convinced that this was all just a ploy from the owners of the other bakery

properly, she knew that her bakery's reputation would be ruined and she and Ellie would have to close the shop. That way, there would be only one bakery left in the street and the

competitors. Each time a new

one bakery in the whole busy street before Ashley and Ellie opened theirs.

the man didn't expect that his trick wouldn't work on Ashley and Ellie.

to Ellie, who was standing in the entrance of

coming his way, he flew into a panic. Noticing that Ellie took out her phone, he immediately jumped to his feet and slapped the phone out of Ellie's hand

daughter. Are you trying to hurt her? She is unconscious because of you. Why are