A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 153

Looking up at Cordy just then, Zoe asked, “You must be curious as to how John ended up bringing Dicky home, aren’t you?”

Cordy nodded, and Zoe gave her an ‘I-knew-it’ look. “Of course he doesn’t tell you a thing.”

In reality, Cordy simply did not ask.

At the same time, Zoe searched her memory and said, “John was twenty-one when Dicky was brought home… and by our grandfather, at that. Actually, John did not even know that he had a kid, but as for how our grandfather knows? Let’s just say he’s omnipotent and leave it at that. Anyway, I remembered that John was still abroad when our grandfather came home with Dicky, and I overheard him speaking over the phone that the mother abandoned Dicky at the hospital after delivering him, so our grandfather brought him back.”

Cordy felt a pain in her chest.

Although John had told her that Richard’s mother had abandoned him, she was still stunned to find out that Richard was abandoned at birth.

The very thought left her suffocating, just as she remembered her own child.

to keep it so badly, only for

not stop her tears just then, while Zoe almost jumped in shock at

don’t know,” Cordy murmured as her tears guashed. “My chest

sad when I saw Dicky at the time too. How cruel could that woman be to abandon her own son? I’d never forgive her if I were John!”

nodded quietly, while Zoe continued to rant with righteous indignation, “I’m actually curious too. What woman could be so crazy that she’d abandon John and Dicky? Is he not handsome enough for her? Or is he not rich enough, or not powerful

curious who that woman was too, to leave John

got drunk and discussed that woman, and we both agreed that she

her throat, taken by

reason would any woman have to dump my

proud of John, a far

of Jay, she quickly came to her senses. “Zoe, shouldn’t you be deciding how to resolve your

was actually impressed that Zoe could stay unaffected and gossip about John with

used to it after working in showbiz for so long-it’ll be resolved eventually. There were rumors before that I’ve risen through the ranks thanks to my connection with some bigwig,