Chapter 313

The room was once again silent, since Cordy's words left John dumbstruck.

They stared each other down for a while until John smiled wistfully.

''Is it that hard to work with me, Cordy?"

Cordy's chest actually stung.

John had always been despotic, but those words carried such heartbreak and helplessness.

Even so, she said, "I've already made things very clear to you after the announcement of your engagement with Jessica Stuart.

We aren't that close that I have to suffer everything for your sake.

the Stuarts want to take me down right now because of you, and

it is going on between you and Jessica?

to the point that

had been futile, even incurring

and accept everything arranged for him like a tool, and marry

clenched but soon eased as he said,

was pleading, quietly and

as he promised her, "If I fail to save you

shred of hopes he

but she suddenly

ever since he learned that John had hidden the fact that Richard was her son and was relentlessly

he wanted revenge for dumping him back then, as well as

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