Housewife Gone Wild

Ryan actually seemed pretty hungry. Once he’d polished off a bowl of rice, he popped his meds.

I glanced around the place–it was so peaceful, not a hint of noise anywhere.

“Don’t you have class or something?” I asked him.

“Yeah, I’m going back to school tomorrow,” Ryan replied. “What, you think I came to Shaville because I flunked out?”

I chuckled. “With your family, it doesn’t really matter where you go to school. Staying safe is what matters.”

Ryan laughed too. “I’m actually a pretty good student. I just came to Shaville for my own reasons.”

I nodded, taking his word for it.

“Sorry for making you come all this way. Do you think I’m being silly?” Ryan shot me a quick, almost shy glance as he asked.

“Not at all. Just get better soon,” I reassured him.

Ryan slouched onto the couch; eyes half–closed. “Relax, I’m not dying or anything. But honestly, I’m about to get depressed if I keep staying in. I just want to go out and do something fun.”

“Where do you want to go?” I asked with a smile.

go on an adventure, head out to the middle of nowhere, climb a snowy mountain, go scuba diving…” Ryan’s eyes lost their spark. “But in reality, they won’t even

me and thought, ‘When

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Ryan said, sadness in his eyes as he looked at me. “At first, they wouldn’t even let me go to Hachester to see you. They even control my every move. But you…

just stared at him, totally at

“You probably never imagined I have

thought Ryan was free to come and go as he pleased, but I never realized there were so many restrictions behind the scenes. Who would’ve thought things were

me, almost dazed. “Victoria, if I said I wanted you, they’d

hitched, and it felt like my whole

Then he added, “I’d never let them lay a

down my back, and I found

my eyes, guilt written all over his face. “You

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know more about me.”

more I find out, the more hopeless it feels,” I said, half joking. “Honestly, who really