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

lips. So many years had passed since the incident,

blurred images in her mind seemed to clear

begged me not to touch you, but

If you hadn’t left the

I was bruised all over from that

but clench her fist tightly. John

with

I didn’t want to look for you before.

wild, and after you forced me to sleep with you and abandoned

only

then, my parents got into an accident and

John paused for a moment, then cleared his throat

in mourning, and my

on all the pressure and burden of the family, and

to travel between home

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

that…you abandoned him.”

Cordy felt her

could she

She clearly remembered the doctor and nurse telling her that

she was on the operation table. She had

she didn’t even dare to look at

She simply accepted the fact

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

It was futile to say anything, especially

to

that when I first saw Richard, I

calming down, I chose to understand you. You