Ryan actually seemed pretty hungry. Once he’d polished off a bowl of rice, he popped his meds.

I glanced around the place–it was so peaceful, not a hint of noise anywhere.

“Don’t you have class or something?” I asked him.

“Yeah, I’m going back to school tomorrow,” Ryan replied. “What, you think I came to Shaville because I flunked out?”

I chuckled. “With your family, it doesn’t really matter where you go to school. Staying safe is what matters.”

Ryan laughed too. “I’m actually a pretty good student. I just came to Shaville for my own reasons.”

I nodded, taking his word for it.

“Sorry for making you come all this way. Do you think I’m being silly?” Ryan shot me a quick, almost shy glance as he asked.

“Not at all. Just get better soon,” I reassured him.

Ryan slouched onto the couch; eyes half–closed. “Relax, I’m not dying or anything. But honestly, I’m about to get depressed if I keep staying in. I just want to go out and do something fun.”

“Where do you want to go?” I asked with a smile.

middle of nowhere, climb a snowy mountain, go scuba diving…” Ryan’s eyes lost

good–looking young man in front of me and thought, ‘When someone’s protected to this extent, it’s

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said, sadness in his eyes as he looked at me. “At first, they wouldn’t even let me go to Hachester to see

just stared at him, totally at a loss for

looked at me. “You probably never imagined I have to

so shocked I couldn’t even speak. I always thought Ryan was free to come and go as he pleased, but I never realized there

“Victoria, if I said I wanted you, they’d have you delivered to me before

are ‘they‘?” I asked, my breath hitched, and it felt like my whole reality was crumbling. It was like Ryan and I existed

Then he added, “I’d never let them lay a finger on you. You’re the only one I

shiver crept down my back, and I found myself gripping

guilt written all over his face. “You said you didn’t

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know more about me.”

out, the more hopeless it feels,” I said, half joking. “Honestly, who really gets to do whatever

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