A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 245

Cordy didn’t reply.

Sometimes, silence really could replace everything.

“I didn’t mean to hide the fact that I was the man who slept with you when you

were eighteen,” John admitted. “I asked you before if you hated him, and you

said yes. I thought I’d tell you when our relationship was more stable, when you

no longer rejected physical contact with me. Maybe…

Just maybe, you’d be able to accept my presence.”

Cordy listened quietly, not interrupting him at all. And so, John went on.

Enter title…

“At that time, I had just returned from abroad and was drinking with Bob and a

few other friends. At the bar, I saw you while you were delirious. A man

approached you, and you tried to refuse him. I went up to you two and pushed

him away, and then you leaned against me. You felt hot to touch. I admit that I

took you to a hotel, but where else was I going to take you? I didn’t know, and

you were burning up. I asked you, but you didn’t say anything. After that, when

we reached the hotel, you pushed me onto the bed, and…” John trailed off,

looking back

lips. So many years

her mind seemed to clear

me not to touch you, but you

you were that night. If you hadn’t left the morning before I woke up,

was bruised all over from that

couldn’t help but clench her fist

she wanted to forget so badly with such ease, it made her

to look for you before. But I had

forced me to sleep

upset. I returned abroad, but it only

But then, my parents got

for a moment, then

and my grandfather fell ill from

and burden

work. I had to travel between home and abroad frequently, and I

look for you. Later, my grandfather brought

that…you abandoned him.”

felt her

How could she have abandoned

and nurse

on the operation table. She had

didn’t even dare

the fact that her

is this your way of getting

to say anything, especially if

complicated to begin

I first saw Richard, I was angry and

But after calming down, I chose to understand you.