The Revenger's System

50. For A Price They Wouldn't Pay

There was a boy who lived on the other side of the small woods behind her grandfather's house.

Violet knew that, remembered that. She just didn't know who that boy was. The talk with Ryan a few days ago bothered her that much. He said he knew her and her late grandfather. He was the boy living in the other house behind the small woods.

The boy with the missing tooth.

The boy who she used to play with.

Could it really be Ryan all along?

But the name – Violet was sure it wasn't Ryan Wilder. The name tasted like an alien, it was foreign to her mind, and even her memory loss didn't erase that strangeness. Who could it be?

Ryan refused to tell the name, the one he owned that only he knew.

Perhaps her late grandfather knew.

Oh, he must know about it. Why else would her grandfather ask her to marry a homeless man who lived by eating trash and sleeping with rats? Even if he saved her grandfather's life, then his gratitude shouldn