Meeting Ryker’s family doesn’t go as expected. It is almost too pleasant to be true. His dad is courteous and polite to me. As for his stepmother, she is one of the sweetest women I had the pleasure of meeting.
“What do you think of her?” Ryker asks me in a worried tone as we’re heading out of the hospital ward where she is staying.
“She seems really nice,” I tell him sincerely.
“Yeah, almost too nice. Could it be a trick of some sorts?” He wonders out loud in a hushed tone.
I giggle and then try to reassure him, “Not all stepmothers are evil witches, you know.” He gives me a pointed look. “I’m serious,” I go on. “Maybe your dad just landed a kind-hearted woman.”
He shrugs as if to say he doesn’t know.
We are exiting the hospital when we meet none other than my old bully and sw
