Candance's POV
He yelled, jerking back the chair, "I said eat!" "Have you become so high and powerful that you have forgotten your customary ways?! So the meal is too low or unclean for you is it?" he asked, turning to face me while holding my face in his palms.
I felt the contemptuous looks the other men directed my way as tears streamed from my eyes and down my cheeks as he scowled daggers at me and barked out every harsh remark. "Get on all fours and eat the food from the ground like a dog!" they said. I wanted to hide under the table in humiliation.
He slapped me across the face and I struck my head at the edge of the table, I was drowning in embarrassment, but I managed to say, "No. I cannot! I rather stay hungry!" He continued with a few more slaps.
I quickly got down o
