A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 313

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 I don't have what it takes to fight

going on between

that John actually felt

futile, even

he should compromise himself as she suggested, stay jaded and accept everything arranged for him like a

but soon eased as he said, "Can you give me

pleading, quietly

bit her lip as he promised her, "If I fail to save you from harm, I'll marry Jessica and not bother

carried the last shred of hopes he

to refuse, but she suddenly stopped herself and stayed

did not trust him at all, ever since he learned that John had hidden the

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

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