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.

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

her parents are acting. Who would use their own daughter to pretend something as terrible as this?" said a woman.

hearing this, the man let out a

the truth? The food in

cake, when he has his own cakes?" a man asked curiously when he

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

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

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shop. She wasn't fazed by their remarks and

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

always made scornful remarks about Ashley's bakery and she wasn't stupid. She

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

close the shop. That way, there would be only one bakery left in the street and the treacherous couple would

the couple before to deal with their competitors. Each time a new bakery opened, they

one bakery in the whole busy street before Ashley

his trick wouldn't

and called out to Ellie, who was standing in the entrance of their bakery. "Call 120, Ellie, tell them

panic. Noticing that Ellie took out her phone, he immediately jumped to his feet

hurt her? She is unconscious because of you. Why are you so mean?" the man chided,