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

So many years had

mind seemed

said you begged me not to touch

If you hadn’t left the morning before I woke

that I was bruised all

fist tightly.

forget so badly with

not like I didn’t want to look for you before. But I had my pride; I

and after you forced me to sleep with

returned abroad, but it only

parents got into

then cleared his

mourning, and

all the pressure and burden of the family,

home and abroad frequently, and I

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

that…you abandoned him.”

Cordy felt her

How could she

and nurse

stillborn when she was on the operation table. She

even dare to look at the

fact that

“So, is this your way of getting revenge on me?”

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

to

that when I first saw Richard, I was

you. But after calming down, I chose to