A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 161

Cordy shook her head. “I’m fine.”

She was just scalded a little by the boiling water, and it only hurt for a split second-she could bear with it.

However, she felt genuine danger as John got even closer.

He was already tall, while she was dainty even though he put her on the bar-she did not even reach his height even though she was sitting so high up!

He did not seem to hear her either, and he was studying her fair, delicate fingers for injury. After ensuring there were no red burns on her hand, he eventually said, “Ms. Sachs, you’re always bumbling around, aren’t you?”

He was being critical, but somehow, he sounded ever so tender.

“I’m not!” Cordy retorted, though she suddenly lost confidence after that.

She just realized that she messed up as many times as she cooked for John at her place.

Meeting John’s meaningful gaze just then, she admitted, “It’s just around you.”

She never messed up around others, after all.

asked, his lips curling upward-clearly satisfied by the answer. “I’m honored that you feel natural around me,

did he

wiggled, pointing out, “The pasta will

to get off the bar, but John

taste horrible if it gets

do it,” John said. “You just stay

feeling as if she was being treated like a child again, just like Richard, though Richard could probably swear

out of the pot and served them on two large plates, placing them on the

up Cordy from the bar and they started

a simple combination of pasta, broccoli, eggs, and some ham, but somehow there

did not leave immediately-he loafed on the living room couch, perfectly comfortable as he picked up the remote and clicked through different

felt a little helpless, since she was

Group by day, and she

with any designs aside from

John refusing to leave

need to get uncomfortable on my account,” John said, as if he had another eye to

way he put it… Whose house was

heart soon skipped a

eat at her house because he knew she would be

she turned and headed