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 she

was looking

about to turn and leave again, he

again and flushed once more-he was holding her bra,

dropped it? And he picked it

that there were things that must not be simply picked up from the floor?

off his hands and left as if

stepped out of the bathroom, Cordy

it was nothing

got up and was about to send John away, she noticed in surprise that he was

hairdryer

it in before saying,

“As thanks for taking care of Dicky, and for

is way more than enough,”

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

act so natural even when

time, John said nothing else

only