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,

back

her lips. So many years

blurred images in her mind

said you begged me not to touch

hadn’t left the morning before I woke up, you

seen that I was bruised all over from that

fist tightly. John was bringing up the past

with such

“It’s not like I didn’t want to look for you

to sleep with you and abandoned

I returned abroad, but it only lasted a month before

you. But then, my parents got into

then cleared his throat and continued

family was in mourning, and my grandfather fell ill

and burden of the

had to travel between home

look for you. Later, my

that…you abandoned him.”

her heart

could she

doctor and nurse telling her that her baby had

the operation table. She had

she didn’t even dare to look

simply accepted the fact that her baby

this your way of getting revenge on me?” Cordy

to say anything, especially if the

to

first saw Richard, I was

calming down, I chose to understand