The challenge was issued on a Tuesday morning, exactly ten days after Eleanor Chen had arrived in the penthouse, approximately seventy-two hours after she had defeated ALFRED in single combat, and roughly forty-eight hours after she had finally called Lucas by his actual name.
Sophie had been quiet for two days. In retrospect, that should have been the warning.
"I challenge you," Sophie announced, striding into the kitchen with a spatula in each hand—one was her own monogrammed spatula, the other was one she had apparently borrowed from Eleanor's collection without permission—"to a dumpling competition."
