A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 31

Cordy was speechless-she was under the impression that John had missed her message “Then what are you doing here?”

“Dinner

Cordy somehow had no comeback against that.

“Where’s the bathroom?” John asked.

“My room,” Cordy replied-she was living alone and did not need a shared bathroom, so she just had it cleared for a study instead.

John entered, glancing at Richard, who was sleeping soundly in bed, before heading inside the bathroom.

Cordy was going to turn and leave when she remembered something, and she dashed toward the bathroom just as John was about to close the door

John raised a brow “Ms. Sachs “”

Cordy flushed again-she had left her clothes and undergarments in the bathroom after showering

flustered as

looking with

turn and leave again, he called out,

holding her bra, even

And he picked it

be simply picked up from the floor? Or that seeing no evil was

off his hands and left as if fleeing, her

of the bathroom, Cordy was on the couch, having calmed

were adults and it was nothing to

about to send John away, she

hairdryer

and plugged it in before saying,

continued, “As thanks for taking care of Dicky, and for personally making a homemade

way more than enough,” Cordy replied

notice from the boutique about the payment,” John replied. “Even if I’d rather you didn’t wear a gown bought with someone else’s money,

that he could act so natural even when there’s so

else and

there was only