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

grabbed everything at once, looking flustered as she held them behind

looking with

about to turn and leave again, he called out,

more-he was holding her bra, even flapping them

And he picked

he not understand that there were things that must not be simply picked up

his hands and left as

the bathroom, Cordy was on the

adults and it was nothing

to send John away, she

hairdryer

plugged it in before

continued, “As thanks for taking care of Dicky, and

is way more

replied. “Even if I’d rather you didn’t wear a gown

so natural even when

John said nothing else and

suddenly, there was only the sound