Chapter 81 Trick


    Cheryl was a waitress that Greyson had rmended 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 cked 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 vani 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."


    The onlookers started whispering to one another.


    "I ate food 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.


    "Oh that poor little girl. It doesn''t look like her parents are acting. Who would use their own daughter to


    pretend something as terrible as this?" said a woman.


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


    "Is that man telling the truth? The food in that shop isn''t safe to eat?"


    "Oh, isn''t that man the owner of Teddy Bear Bakery? Why would hee 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.


    The expression on the father''s face froze and he looked 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


    popr so I came here to try some of the cakes. I never expected something like this to happen..."


    The father''s words had made sense and his daughter was still lying on the ground in aa. The


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


    parents.


    ...


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


    skeptical nces.


    She narrowed her eyes at the couple who were crouching beside the unconscious girl and recognized


    that they were the owners of the bakery nearby.


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


    man''s story for one minute.


    The two shops were in stiffpetition with each other and Ashley was convinced that this was all just


    a ploy from the owners of the other bakery to defame hers.


    If she didn''t settle this 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


    treacherous couple would get their old customers back again.


    What Ashley wasn''t aware of, was this trick had been used by the couple before to deal with their


    competitors. Each time a new bakery opened, they would y the same trick and make the owners


    close their shop.


    That was the reason why there was only one bakery in the whole busy street before Ashley and Ellie


    opened theirs.


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


    Ashley went to check on the little girl and called out to Ellie, who was standing in the entrance of their


    bakery. "Call 120, Ellie, tell them that someone has copsed."


    When the man saw Ashleying his way, he flew into a panic. Noticing that Ellie took out her phone,


    he immediately jumped to his feet and pped the phone out of Ellie''s hand causing it to fall and break


    on the ground.


    "What 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.


    Ellie''s face darkened as she stared at her broken phone on the ground. Seething, she glowered at the


    man who pped the phone from her hand and hollered at him, "When the hell did you see us hurt


    her? Your daughter has fainted, but you don''t want to take her to a hospital. Instead, you leave her


    lying on the cold ground.


    I was going to call 120 but you stopped me and pped the phone out of my hand. Are you really even


    her father?"


    "She has a point. They tried to help your little girl out of goodwill. Can''t you see that?" said someone


    from the crowd.


    "Besides, thatdy was going to call 120, but you just pped it out of her hand and now it''s broken on


    the ground. Why would you do that?" asked another.


    The onlookers began to question and criticize the father''s behavior.


    Everyone had been so caught up in the man''s usations against the bakery that they ignored the fact


    that the parents didn''t do anything to help their own daughter and take her to a hospital.


    "Call 120. The kid needs immediate treatment," some bystander called out.


    Ashley pulled her phone out with the intention of calling 120. The girl''s father saw what she was going


    to do and made a quick move towards her to try and stop her.


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    Ashley frowned at him and managed to dodge his advances, protecting her phone so it didn''t end up


    like Ellie''s one which was broken on the ground.


    She red at him and asked acidly, "What are you doing?"


    "No! You can''t call 120!" the man yelled and shot Ashley a threatening look.


    Frowning, Ashley red at him and snapped, "Why not? Didn''t you say that our shop''s food made your


    daughter get sick and copse? I am trying to save your daughter''s life. If she doesn''t get to a hospital,


    she could be in grave danger!"