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.”

real piece of work,” I muttered, unable to help myself. “Getting into that much debt at his age and leaving a college kid to clean up his

no sense to me. When he saw my confused face, he caught himself and stopped abruptly. “My grandpa’s actually… He’s a good man,” he said softly.

grandpa who let his grandson get hunted down by loan

in my book.

go on back to the office,” I told him. “Don’t go wandering

and headed back

an hour at a coffee shop. By the time

make sure I got the IOU back and to record the whole meeting tomorrow, just in case I get scammed. If these were loan

afternoon. A wild, reckless thought sparked in my brain: I should go,

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car, I realized it was a stupid plan to go alone. I needed help. So, I

I bring

car. Just hurry,” I said, my mind already racing to

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

my knuckles ached. “Ryan, I’m

nodded