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

“Yeah, but…”

at me again for a long moment. When he did, it was only for a second, before returning his gaze to Joyce, as he brought up yet another point of contention.

on my thigh, back and forth. His fingers were moving gradually toward the inside.

his hand right along with me,

wrinkling my dress. Though my dress was the very last of my worries at the moment,

speared a piece of the meat and held his fork out for

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

accepting his advances. If I rejected, it would 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

closed my eyes, and accepted the bite of meat from Terry’s

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

glass

shot

had clutched his water glass so tightly it shattered. Blood dripped down from his

the display and made no attempts to hide it.

Julian, who nodded in

replaced the broken cup with

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

a hand on my

that only made him grab

a cornered animal with nowhere to go. No one was coming for the

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