Their insults flew as they tore at my clothes, clawing and hitting me.
I clenched my teeth so hard, unwilling to be insulted like this and slammed into the person before me with all my might.
Jennie cried out in pain and fell to the ground.
Her friends panicked and rushed to help her, but I grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head into the ground.
Since I couldn't have the dignity I wanted, I would destroy it myself.
After punching three people in a row, my hand was about to strike Jennie when Julian grabbed it.
My eyes reddened as I turned to look at him.
He'd done nothing as I was being beaten and neither had anyone else. Now that I was finally fighting back, he had to step in.
Julian's Adam's apple bobbed as he struggled to speak. After a long pause, he said in a rough voice, "Stop it, Wanda. You shouldn't have come."
A tear escaped my eye.
I laughed, then pulled my hand back.
Picking up the mobile phone beside me, I looked into his eyes and said word by word, "Julian, we're even now!"
Fourteen years of protecting you, eight years of being your stand-in and today's humiliation – we're even now.