Housewife Gone Wild

Chapter 226

My voice was dead serious, but I heard Ryan let out a small chuckle behind me. “You’re really gonna pay his debt?” the leader asked, his voice laced with disbelief.

“He’s my employee. I’m not going to stand here and watch you thugs haul him off,” I said flatly. “Get me the official loan agreement, and I’ll wire you the money.”

“We don’t have it on us,” the man said, giving a curt signal to his men. “Same time tomorrow. Right here.” And with

that, they turned and left.

I let out a breath I didn’t know I was holding and turned to look at Ryan. He didn’t look scared at all and just kept

staring at me with this weird expression.

“You okay?” I asked. “That didn’t freak you out?”

Ryan shook his head. “You were brave,” he said quietly.

I let out a short, humorless laugh. “Don’t be so sure. I’m sweating through my shirt right now.”

Ryan’s eyes got all intense. “No,” he insisted. “You’re the first person besides my mom or my grandma who’s ever stepped up to protect me.”

“Wait, you’re an only child?” I blurted out, surprised.

He just nodded. “Yeah.”

help myself. “Getting into that much debt at his

started cracking up, which made no sense to me. When he saw my confused face, he caught himself and stopped abruptly. “My grandpa’s

get hunted down by loan sharks wasn’t winning

in my book.

I told him. “Don’t go wandering around

turned and headed

at a coffee shop. By the time I got back to the office, Jared

the IOU back and to record the whole meeting tomorrow, just in

an airport pickup this afternoon. A wild, reckless thought sparked in my brain: I should go, too.

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bolted. Halfway to my car, I realized it was a

Murphy, should I bring any

in the car. Just hurry,” I said, my mind already

was waiting on a side street. The second he buckled in, he asked, “Where

I said, gripping the steering wheel so hard my knuckles ached. “Ryan, I’m paying off your debt. Now I need a

Ryan nodded