A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1

unconscious.She did not realize that someone had suddenly opened the door to her ward, and she turned to find her father, stepmother, and Noel in the room already.“Are you alright, Cordy?” Noel asked tearfully.All Cordy could think about right then was the sight of Kyle saving Noel. She averted her eyes from them.“You’re always so rude! Don’t you see that your sister cares about you?” her father, Simon Sachs, snapped right then. On the other hand, Cordy’s stepmother, Sue Yorkman, could see that Cordy did not want to talk. Sue quickly told him, “Simon, Cordy is just a child. We have more important matters anyway.”Simon did not want to waste his breath with Cordy either, and said right away, “You probably know by now, but Noel’s the one Kyle actually loves, and it’s a lucky coincidence that the wedding was disrupted. So give them your blessing and announce the annulment of your engagement with Kyle.”Cordy laughed despite her fury and she asked Simon, “Why?”“Because they love each other,” Simon said with utter conviction. “You’d already dragged our family’s name through the mud when you had a child out of wedlock! All of North City knows that, and did you really think the Jessops would accept someone with such a questionable past? They are giving you a way out, so take it!”Cordy’s questionable past went as far as she was eighteen.Noel had tricked Cordy to show up at a bar, where she was drugged and ended up waking up in the bed of a man she did not recognize.She was so distraught she did not even look at the man before running away, and she was too young to understand contraceptives. In fact, she was already five months pregnant before she realized