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.

opened his eyes, and he

“I’m sorry,” Cordy said.

A refusal.

apple was bobbing, but he slowly straightened

heart raced once

not progressed that far, and John

guilty for some reason-as if she had let him

leave, when Cordy suddenly explained,

time when I was eighteen-and I had sex with a man I didn’t know. My memories were a blur, and my mind was blank when I woke up… save for this

as she continued to hold his gaze. “Ever since then, I would feel both mental and physical discomfort from any man’s touch,

sat up on her bed,

since she was in too much of

John heard her vomiting

gut-wrenching sound, and it

even as he stared

had passed when things

vomited a lot, even her own bile, but her

left her body limp, and she was unable to

and there was an edge

Cordy nodded tamely.

his arms and