A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 48

John’s deep, melodious voice was apologetic.

“I was too late.”

Cordy shook her head. “You were right on time.”

And everything was just fine.

John’s heart skipped a beat, his gaze tender as he watched Cordy’s tears roll over her cheeks.

He stroked her cheek then and gently wiped her tears.

She flinched slightly and opened her eyes.

Their eyes met, and an attraction seemed to be nourished right then.

She was still looking him straight in the eye even as he leaned closer.

A small spark between adults could certainly burst into flames…

However, as John leveled his lips against Cordy’s soft, moist lips, she turned just as he was about to kiss her, so that he kissed her cheek instead.

and he stared at Cordy

“I’m sorry,” Cordy said.

A refusal.

he slowly straightened

heart raced once

had not progressed that far, and John

for some reason-as if

up, ready to leave, when

was eighteen-and I had sex with a man I didn’t know. My memories

gaze. “Ever since then, I would feel both mental and physical discomfort from any man’s touch, as if it’s an

finished, she suddenly sat up on her bed,

in

John heard her

a gut-wrenching sound, and it

inscrutable even as he stared in

long had passed when things

knees beside the toilet-she had vomited a lot, even her own bile, but her stomach

body limp, and she was

John asked, and there

Cordy nodded tamely.

arms and laid her carefully in