Housewife Gone Wild

Chapter 210

The food hit the table, and I started eating with one hand while checking work emails on thought people glued to their phones for work were just putting on a show.

It turned out that there really was an endless stream of stuff to deal with. Prejudice was really horrible.

“Victoria-” Ryan started.

“Call me Ms. Murphy,” I said without looking up.

Ryan nodded obediently. “Okay, Ms. Murphy. You

first. Work never ends.”

1 paused, looking up at him. “You’re pretty thoughtful

my phone with the other. Back when I wasn’t working fatwaye

Ryan looked a bit embarrassed and said quietly, “I just noticed you

weren’t eating much.”

I put my phone down and focused on my meal. That was when I noticed Ryan ate with a certain grace–slow and composed, totally different from those teenage boys i’d seen before who usually just wolfed down their food.

After we finished eating, Ryan suddenly stood up and ran off to pay

let me get this!” I called out, waving him

was fast–he’d already paid and

the check.

“Don’t worry about it, Ms. Murphy. If it weren’t for you, I

was the grateful type. I

lunch, we walked back to the office. That afternoon, I sent Ryan out to run an errand and discuss a promo

word and jacked up the price by 30%. When I called to negotiate,

but he said, “Don’t worry, Ms. Murphy. I’ll see if I

pull some strings.”

I asked

from college who works at that company. Maybe

pulled it off–and he even negotiated the price

about it, though. He just quietly went back to his seat

got dark, I told Ryan to call it a day. He gave a lazy stretch and

quite a few cars sporting Shaville plates parked out front, and even one

parked here every day, I always kept an eye on the cars around, so spotting all these out–of–town plates all

ht me off guard.

swung by the supermarket for some groceries. When I got back, Jared was downstairs at

quickly stubbed

saw me,

dodged his hand and said, “Didn’t I tell you to

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Chapter 210