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.

now because of you, and

I suffer for whatever it is going on between you and Jessica? Do

ever to the point that John actually felt like

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

clenched but soon eased as he said, "Can

pleading,

promised her, "If I fail to save

the last shred of hopes

going to refuse, but she suddenly stopped herself and stayed

all, ever since he learned that John had hidden the fact that Richard was her

her, and was convinced that he wanted revenge for dumping him back then, as well as

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