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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 new dog is a serious commitment,” Joyce said.

“Yeah, but…”

for a long moment. When he did, it was only

Terry was rubbing his hand on my thigh, back and

along with me, keeping it affixed to my leg like he had glued it

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

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a piece of the

taste.

overly intimate. It had even garnered the attention of several nearby candidates and the cameras. The candidates gave me

it was akin to accepting his advances. If I rejected, it would be like a slap in the face. I might as well show myself out

the host.

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

leaned forward, closed my eyes, and accepted the bite of meat from Terry’s fork.

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

glass shattered.

shot opened.

tightly it shattered.

display and made no attempts to hide it. “You should go clean yourself up before you

at Julian, who nodded in return, Nicholas excused himself from the table.

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

one.

leaned in and whispered, “Now that we’re

a hand on

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away by his wrist, but that only made him grab me tighter. His fingers bit into my

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

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