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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…”

Julian totally focused on proving 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 another point

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

shift away from him, but he simply moved his hand right along

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

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of the meat and held his

taste.

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

advances. If I rejected, it would be like a slap in the face. I might as well show myself

the host.

disgust

forward, closed my eyes, and accepted

wanted to spit the food

a glass shattered.

shot

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

own strength perhaps?” Terry was absolutely delighted by the display and made no attempts to hide it. “You should go clean yourself up before

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

cleared away the glass shards and replaced

one.

in

a hand on

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him grab me tighter. His

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

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