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.

take me down right now because of you, and I don't have

on between you and Jessica? Do you

ever to the point that John actually felt like he would

perseverance now had been futile, even incurring her disgust and

accept everything arranged for him like a tool, and marry a woman he did not love —just to give Cordy the

eased as he said,

was pleading,

I fail to save you from harm,

last shred of hopes

refuse, but she suddenly stopped herself and stayed

did not trust him at all, ever since he learned that John had hidden the fact that Richard was her son

wanted revenge for dumping him back then, as well

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