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….

have been

did not expect that she would

but did not think that as she closed her eyes and kept laying there in her bed, she

strangers because she felt

and found John also asleep

was a small couch, so it looked like he was mostly cramping his

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

and tried to lay

instant he was close to her, John opened his eyes, leaving her

“Sorry, I… Oh!”

as suddenly caught her

entire body fell into his arms, while she felt like the

flipped around and pinned her beneath

hence stared into each other’s eyes in

John suddenly leaned

Cordy’s heart was racing.

was coming, and she shifted her body in

a moment when

her lip, watching

And closer.

the very last instant, she suddenly closed her eyes and clenched her knuckles, as if to make her