Housewife Gone Wild

Chapter 224

I remembered Jared promising my parents he wouldn’t see Tracy again. At that thought, I smacked my forehead. I can’t believe I forgot to hit record when I was eavesdropping earlier.

If I’d recorded that conversation, I could’ve used it as hard evidence that Jared and Tracy were still hooking up. I needed to get my act together. Just because Tracy’s baby wasn’t Jared’s didn’t mean they hadn’t been sleeping together.

Saturday rolled around, but I was still buried in work. Some of the office staff came in for overtime, Ryan could’ve taken the day off since he was just an intern, but he showed up bright and early anyway.

“Ms. Murphy, did you have breakfast?” Ryan asked, placing a pastry bag on the corner of my desk. “I brought some bread.”

The milky scent hit me, and I glanced at the bag. “Where did you get these? They smell incredible.”

Ryan’s voice dropped to a whisper. “I… I made them myself.”

I looked at him in surprise. Yvonne was a ridiculously picky eater. I’d taught myself to bake a few things for her, but I could never pull off anything this good.

“No way. You’re what, barely twenty? And you can bake like this?” I shook my head in amazement.

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“Go ahead, try it. Let me know

bite. It was fluffy and light, perfectly sweet. “This is amazing,”

spread across Ryan’s face. Right then, someone called him over to help move stuff around

huge fight yesterday, I assumed things between

speak to me. He glanced at the pastries on my desk. “Let’s go out for lunch, shall we?”

was so weird. Jared had been finding all sorts of excuses to take me out

That’s not a real

a dry laugh. “Thanks for caring,

his voice bitter. “All these years… Doesn’t that mean anything to

you pushing it?” I

to get to me,” Jared said. His eyes were

loud,” I said,

pulled up a chair and sat down