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.

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

for whatever it is going on between you and

remained staunch as ever to the point that John actually felt like he would never have

even incurring her disgust and bringing her

for him like a tool, and marry a woman he did not love —just to

knuckles clenched but soon eased as he said, "Can

was pleading, quietly and

to save you

the last shred of

but she

him at all, ever since he learned that John had hidden

in her, and was convinced that he wanted revenge for

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