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.”

a serious

“Yeah, but…”

Joyce wrong, that he did not look 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

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

moved his hand right along with me, keeping it

dress. Though my dress was the very last of my worries at the moment, because ever so

He speared a piece of the meat and held his fork

felt overly intimate. It had even garnered the attention of several nearby candidates

to accepting his advances. If I rejected, it would be like a slap in the face. I might as

the way disgust

leaned forward, closed my eyes, and accepted the bite of meat from

said, and I wanted to spit the food in his

a glass

eyes shot opened.

glass so tightly it shattered. Blood dripped down from

strength perhaps?” Terry was absolutely delighted by the display and made no attempts to hide it. “You

a glance at Julian, who nodded in return, Nicholas excused himself from

the glass shards and replaced the broken cup with a

He leaned in and whispered, “Now

on

but that only made him grab me tighter. His fingers bit into

with nowhere to go. No one was coming

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