A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 12

Bob being so nonchalant.She never changed her number—how could he not know?!Was he not doing this on purpose?Men were always so disgusting!“It’s Mandy Jessop.”Bob was left spacing out for a while until he remembered her existence. “What is it?”“I know you’re harassing me because you can’t get over me, but don’t you think you’re being childish? I’m telling you—I’ll never be interested in you. The more you harass me, the more I’ll hate you—”Bob hung up right then. He was not about to let some crazy woman bother him while he was having fun.On the other end, Mandy was left staring in disbelief at her phone screen.[Call disconnected.]Bob hung up on her?!She was so incensed she almost threw her phone across the room!Still, she gritted her teeth and sent him a furious text.[I’m coming to meet you tomorrow. Don’t you run away!]Bob glanced at the text then, and decided Mandy suffered from delusions and a princess complex just then. “Who is it?” Sam asked offhandedly, noticing Bob’s reaction just then.“Mandy Jessop,” Bob said with a scoff.“…I thought you liked her back in high school? What, are you over her already?”“Like, you say?” Bob snorted nonchalantly. “Didn’t we all fall for every pretty face back then? If anything, I prefer Cordy since she’s the fairest of them all!”John’s fingers clenched over his glass then.Jay glanced at him, a vague smile appearing on his lips.Meanwhile, Sam started gossiping. “Now that you’re mentioning Cordy, her wedding with Kyle Jessop really turned south, huh? I heard the man’s family are using that as an excuse to annul it.”“They’re probably unhappy with her past,” Bob said as he took a sip of his drink. “I mean, it’s normal for men to take issue with it, but if Kyle does, he shouldn’t have taken a pass at Cordy at all! She sacrificed everything for Jessop Corp—hell, I saw her getting drunk socializing with their partners with my own eyes, vomiting her guts out and even bearing with men copping a feel. I thought then that Kyle would be subhuman if he doesn’t marry her… and he has turned out to be one!”John’s fingers clenched even tighter over his glass then.Still, Bob was quick to smooth things over. “Oh, let’s stop mentioning the Jessops at all. Jinxes, all of them! Drink up, drink up!”He never spoke much about anything that affected everyone’s mood anyway.Even so, John seemed to become quieter as they continued to drink, and eventually, Jay put down his glass and beckoned, “Let’s go out for a smoke.”They both stepped out of the private room and headed to the balcony garden for a breather.As they each smoked a cigarette, Jay spoke first. “I’ve run into Cordy a few times myself. She actually suffered from gastrointestinal bleeding on one occasion and I had to rush her to the hospital.”John slowly breathed out a large puff of smoke, letting it swirl before him, hiding his face.“Still, I could