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 more

did not expect that she

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

strangers because she felt too insecure to do

found John also asleep

so it looked like he was mostly cramping his huge frame on

staying at the hospital–their roles from that time

she picked up her blanket and tried to lay it over him as gently as

he was close to her, John opened

“Sorry, I… Oh!”

suddenly caught her wrist,

arms, while she felt like the

flipped

other’s eyes in

suddenly leaned in and

Cordy’s heart was racing.

instincts were rejecting what was coming, and she shifted her body

moment when she met his

watching as

And closer.

last instant, she suddenly closed her eyes and clenched her knuckles, as if to make her accept a