A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 12

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