I had no way of escaping.
“I’ll spare you the details, Snow White, but understand that I could make a laundry list of how anyone here could have fun with you.”
“Try to touch me, and I swear you’ll not only long for the punch I threw at you but the glorious days when you could use the tiny thing between your legs that Mother Nature gave you.” The words flew out of my mouth. I expected a furious reaction, but instead he seemed amused.
“Little thing between my legs?” He snickered. “What makes you think I want to touch you?”
I saw his jaw clench as he said that last sentence.
“Why won’t you leave me alone? Do you really have that much fun messing with me?”
“Leave William alone, and I’ll pretend that you never existed. I’ll never bother you again.”
I was overcome by a strange sensation. It could’ve been a threat, but James seemed sincere. “Why should I?”
“None of your fucking business. Do it and that’s it. Tell him you can’t see him anymore.” He wasn’t touching me. He just stared at me, but I was immobilized anyway.
James lowered his head and came so close to me that I could see his eyes getting even cloudier as they met mine. The blue was thin, and his pupils were extremely dilated. He was definitely gone.
James grazed my uniform skirt. He was obviously messing with me. I could’ve told him to cut it out, but I was unable to. I couldn’t even talk, I was so mortified.
Jackson tried to grab James’s arm, but he pushed him off so hard that Jackson almost fell.
“Well, Marvin?”
Even poor Marvin seemed uncomfortable now.
I felt my heart pound in my ears. My throat was so dry that it hurt to even swallow.
“You’re not special,” he said bluntly.
Marvin noticed my terrified expression and looked regretful.
“So, dear, Marviny, hurry up with White . . .” He paused to lick his lips and bite his lower one.
“What are you talking about?” His friend rubbed the nape of his neck, bewildered.
James leered at me in a way that made me shiver. “Before I get the unsavory idea of fucking her in front of everyone one of these days.”
He hadn’t even touched me, but his words were so humiliating that I immediately averted my gaze from him.
As tears filled my eyes, I couldn’t prevent them from falling.
It was unfair to feel so weak because of something as insignificant as other people’s stupidity.
I decided to react. “It doesn’t work like that.” That was all I managed to say.
“Oh, no?” he asked, taking a step back.
Finally, I started breathing again. “No. You might have power over the four morons in your entourage, but not over me.”
He took the drink out of Marvin’s cousin’s hands and sipped it as he continued to stare at me.
“Really? Why is that?” he asked between clenched teeth.
“Take a wild guess. I’m not an object, and you’re a truly despicable human being. Nothing I say could remotely come close to what I think of you. You’re a fucking pig. And I hate you.” It happened again. I expected him to get angry, but instead he burst out laughing. Maybe he was satisfied because he’d achieved his goal of humiliating me, hurting me, and making me angry. But he certainly wasn’t terrified of me.
“And here I was just marketing you to my friends.” He shrugged indifferently and went back to smoking like nothing had happened. “And after I told you what you had to do. Leave Will alone. It doesn’t seem that difficult to me.”
