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 commitment,”

“Yeah, but…”

on proving Joyce wrong, that he did not look at me again for a long moment. When he did, it was only

hand on my thigh, back and forth. His

right along with me, keeping

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

to die for.” He speared a piece of the meat and held

garnered the attention of several nearby

If I rejected, it would be like a slap in the face. I might as well show myself out now for how much

my stomach, ignoring the way disgust swirled within it, violent and angry.

forward, closed my eyes, and accepted the

wanted to spit the

glass

eyes shot opened.

tightly it

display and made

harder, but, after casting a glance at Julian, who nodded in return, Nicholas excused himself from the table.

immediately cleared away the glass shards and replaced the broken cup with

in and whispered, “Now that

on my upper

that only made him grab me tighter. His

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

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