A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 134

Even as their eyes met, certain feelings were undoubtedly growing.

Cordy genuinely did not think that after all the dark times she survived–and more recently Kyle- that she would suddenly begin another relationship.

She was not actually sure about this, but she took the first step regardless.

Was it John who was good at flirting, or was he not as cold as she thought–not as disenchanted with the world as she believed?

And after confirming their relationship, they were suddenly both silent, making things rather awkward.

“Do you hate that man who slept with you?” John suddenly asked.

There was a hint of nervousness in his impassive expression, while Cordy was just confused why he would ask about that.

Maybe because she disliked men after that incident?

“I do,” she said.

John blinked subtly even as Cordy continued, “He was clearly conscious at the time. I remembered it so clearly, begging him to stop and not to touch me… but he never did.

The past memory still left her with a pain she could not remove from her mind.

body reacted differently from

voice was too quiet for

moment, and she could not pick up

into that man again? What would you

determinedly. “Because I never saw his face through it all. I don’t know who he is, but I’ll just pretend he never existed–even

and reached out to take

quickly released

hand just as

best to get used to you,” she

John’s lips curled upward.

said.

be lying if she said that she was

she had not gone through so much tragedy, she was sure that she would not give a damn about anything else,

she unwittingly remembered all the pain

that she should not project the mistake of others on John, but humans are creatures of emotions, and certainly a lot less rational than they

could change it

Cordy

became

some rest soon,” John told