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 at

her lips. So many years had passed

in her mind seemed

“You said you begged me not to touch you, but you had no idea how

hadn’t left the morning before I woke

I was bruised

clench her fist tightly. John was

badly with such ease, it

“It’s not like I didn’t want to look for you before. But I had my

you forced me to sleep with you and

I returned abroad, but it only lasted

parents got

then cleared

family was in mourning, and

and burden of the family,

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

look for you. Later, my grandfather brought Richard back,

that…you abandoned him.”

her heart clench

could she

clearly remembered the doctor and nurse telling her that her baby had

on the operation table. She had

dare to look

the fact that her baby was

is this your way of getting revenge on me?” Cordy

explaining anything. It was futile to say anything, especially if

to

first saw Richard,

calming down,