Without hesitation, I slapped the girl. "Take back your slander!"
"You dare hit me?" The girl's face contorted in fury. "b***h!"
She lunged at me, claws bared. I grabbed the nearest chair and swung it with all my might.
She shrieked and leaped back, crashing into the people behind her. My chair, missing its target, slammed heavily against a desk.
The loud crash startled those who had been about to join the fray.
The impact made my palms tingle, but I gripped the chair tightly, not letting my makeshift weapon slip from my grasp. As they quieted down, I sneered, "Fools! You don't even realize you're being manipulated! Did Fiona tell you these things directly?"
Fiona wouldn't be that foolish. She would have said just enough to let their imaginations fill in the blanks. Only these imbeci
