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.

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

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

ever to the point that John actually felt like he would

even incurring her

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

eased as he said,

was pleading,

bit her lip as he promised her, "If I fail to save you from harm, I'll marry Jessica and

carried the last shred of hopes he

but she suddenly

learned that John had hidden the fact that

wanted revenge for

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