A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 75

Before Cordy could speak, John added sharply, “And don’t tell me you weren’t being distant. I have a heart; I can feel it.”

In other words, he was telling her not to lie to him.

Cordy stared at him in silence for a while before asking, “I thought you knew?”

“No, I don’t,” he replied, not bothered to play around.

“I don’t believe in love, and I’ve rejected you before already,” Cordy said, lowering her gaze in fear of meeting him. “It’s just your stubbornness talking.”

She did not want to admit that it was because of Zoe York.

There would be no ‘other woman’ if he never wanted to be with her.

“So you mean to say that my effort was bearing fruit, which was why you’re deliberately distancing yourself?” John asked, as if to confirm it.

Cordy was taken aback, but she admitted it with her silence.

What other reason was there?!

must not get too involved

a sense of security,” John said. “I will restrain myself as best as I can from

won’t lie to you-I

“Dream on, Ms. Sachs.”

a definitive rejection from him-it was utterly merciless, and offered no grounds for

Dicky’s mommy,

John blinked, Cordy was left wondering if he wanted to

“Or my wife.”

was speechless-that was

her mind and therefore telling her assuredly, “You don’t get

Cordy said, refraining from arguing stubbornly because it was pointless to go any

already did,” John replied

“What?”

need the washroom,”

Nature really called out of the blue,

until he fell asleep before

when Simon finally called her, saying that Fabian Locke and Dean Longman would hand in their resignations tomorrow.

letters arrived the next morning just as John texted her, saying that Simon was at the hospital, and

CEO to come to my office-there will be a