A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 116

“It’s alright, I’ll stay here with you,” John replied, as if it was only natural. “Sleep.”

As Cordy stared at him, he said, “You often came by to visit and take care of me when I was staying in the hospital before.”

“You were hurt because of me,” Cordy pointed out.

“I always repay a favor a hundredfold. You don’t have to be so formal with me, Ms. Sachs,” John said with a determined tone.

Cordy pursed her lips–she had this nagging feeling that she would hurt the little child in John if she turned him down.

As such, she simply turned around, keeping her back to him and closed her eyes to sleep.

And with that, John sat by her hospital bed, staring at her delicately small figure.

She really was small… So, so small.

And yet, she was so tough it hurt.

John’s Adam’s apple bobbed just then.

If he stopped her all those years ago, when she was fleeing without a care….

she have been

that she would really fall

to make John leave, but did not think that as she closed her eyes and kept laying there in her

because she felt

found John also asleep on

small couch, so it looked like he was

time when he was staying at the hospital–their roles from that

her blanket and tried to lay it over

close to her, John

“Sorry, I… Oh!”

caught her wrist,

into his arms, while she felt like the world spun around

she could react, John flipped around and pinned her

hence stared into each other’s eyes

John suddenly leaned

Cordy’s heart was racing.

were rejecting what was coming, and she shifted her body

a moment when she met his

bit her lip, watching as John leaned

And closer.

suddenly closed her eyes and clenched her knuckles, as if to make her