Terry slowly trailed his hand up the length of my thigh. He stopped at the meatiest point, just beneath my hip and squeezed.

I wanted to bolt from the table. I wanted to elbow him in the ribs or kick at his shins.

All I could actually do was sit very still and try not to draw attention from the cameras or the guests, while simultaneously trying to only get Julian to notice.

However, every time Julian glanced at me, his attention was immediately claimed again by Joyce sitting beside me. It was strange to hear him talk so much, especially when the topics. seemed to be entirely superfluous.

“Did you watch that television show the other night?” Joyce asked.

“I don’t watch a lot of TV,” Julian replied.

“It was such a good episode.”

Julian nodded, and glanced back at me.

I widened my eyes.

“Did you hear what happened to Aunt Ruby?” Joyce said.

Julian’s eyes went to Joyce again. “No, what?”

“She bought another dog.”

Julian huffed a laugh. “Don’t word it like that, then, Joyce. You made it sound like it was something serious.”

dog is a serious commitment,” Joyce said.

“Yeah, but…”

When he did, it was only

on my thigh, back and

away from him, but he simply moved his hand right along with me, keeping it affixed to my leg like he

he had coaxed his hand between my thighs, undoubtedly wrinkling my dress. Though my dress was the very last of my worries at the

He speared a piece of the meat and held his fork out for me to taste.

even garnered the attention of several nearby candidates and the cameras. The candidates gave me pitying looks. The cameramen moved

be like a slap in the face. I might as well show myself out now for how much standing I would lose, being rude to

the way disgust swirled within it,

eyes, and accepted the bite

a good girl,” Terry said, and I wanted to spit the food in his face.

glass shattered.

shot opened.

his water glass so tightly it shattered. Blood

made no attempts to hide it. “You should go

at Julian, who nodded in return,

replaced the broken

looked at me. He leaned in and whispered, “Now that we’re

on my

that only made him grab me tighter. His fingers bit into my skin, likely

nowhere to go. No one was coming for

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