Housewife Gone Wild

38

I pulled my hand away and hid it behind my back. I said coldly, “That’s because you weren’t the one who got betrayed. You didn’t get hurt, so of course you think anything’s possible.

“But let me ask you–if I really slept with Ryan, would you ever take me back?”

Jared’s eyes flickered with shock. He demanded, “Did you really sleep with him?”

shook my head and sneered, “See? I was just making a point, and you’re already pissed. You can’t even stand the

idea, so don’t stand there telling me to be the bigger person.”

Jared said, “I know you’re lying to me. But you don’t have to lower yourself like this.”

“He’s younger than you, and better looking. If anything, I’m the one coming out ahead–how is that degrading myself?” I retorted with a sneer.

Jared gritted his teeth, clearly at a loss for what to do with me.

I said coolly, “I’m hungry. I’m going to get some breakfast. Just go.”

Jared said, “I’m not leaving.” He then suddenly pulled me into a fierce hug, burying his face in my hair. He muttered, “Victoria, come back to me, please?”

“I’m not coming back, Jared. Clinging like this is beneath you,” I reminded him.

Jared froze, but then he said, “What good is my status if I don’t have you?”

was acting like a total simp. I said, “Jared, have you ever thought about it? If we

will never accept me, and I’ve already had a public falling out with

stunned, as if he’d just been

family harmony, go marry someone your mom approves of.”

love might be

caution to the wind and go against his family just for me.

now, I needed to learn to be just

over to me, worry written all over

1/2

12:09 Thu, 21 Augo

Chapter 261

you here?” I asked as I closed the door behind

bring you

a kid, Ryan. 4 can just go downstairs

know, but I just wanted to do it for

his head, suddenly bashful, unable to meet my

54%

bedroom eyes that always seemed to brim with feeling. Sometimes I wasn’t even trying to

just misleading, and it never worked

boil some water and fix Ryan a