“Are you sure he's okay?” Abbie whispered in Landon's ear for the hundredth time.“You should be worried about yourself,” Landon whispered back.Abbie let out a shaky breath. “This is my fault. If anything happens to Ryan, I won't be able to live with it. If I had known Ryan would end up getting hurt, I wouldn't have called him to come. I have always known my selfishness would—” Landon couldn't bear it anymore. He covered Abbie's mouth with his palm. She looked shocked as she stared at him.Just as he was about to tell her again that everything would be fine, one of the hefty bodyguards came out with a slight limp. Landon was still trying to find an explanation to what must have happened when another hefty man appeared, this one had a bruised face that would definitely become a scar later on.All of them came out on a straight line, behind them was Ryan. He looked like he just had the greatest fun of his life.“I knew it. Ryan d

Two seconds later, Ryan had never been so confused in his life as he looked at the drinks everyone was holding at him. Their eyes too seemed to be begging him to accept them as if it would make them the most successful person in the universe.Ryan laughed nervously. The last thing he wanted at this moment was for his compound girls to think he had a favorite.“Girls, bring the drinks over, let's have a party,” the man with the unkept beard said.“No. We are giving this specially to our savior,” one of the girls said stubbornly.“Well,” Ryan said, “it's not possible for me to drink all these. I might as well share it with everyone.”He could note the disappointment in their movement as they went to the table Jim had prepared. Ryan couldn't be more grateful to the man with the unkept beard that just saved him from an experience worse than death. Well, no one can be more dangerous than a group of jealous women.By the time

“Alright, sir.”Ryan hung up. Good riddle. Someone he's never met before is after his life.There was a soft knock on the door before the door opened and Brenda came in.“Ryan?” Ryan smiled at her. “Good morning.”“Are you free after work tomorrow?”“No.”“Oh…” Brenda nodded. Ryan didn't even allow her to finish talking before he answered. “Well, it's okay. I will go to the party alone.” “Have fun,” Ryan said, much to Brenda's surprise. Yeah, she knows pretty well that she is past that age where Ryan would insist on going with her to a party just in case things happens, but…he's not even asking her what the party is all about?“I might not come to work for a couple of days,” Ryan said.“What…why?” Ryan glanced at her for a long time. His lips curled to form words she was now very familiar with: I'm sorry.“I get it,” she said before Ryan would say those words.
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