A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 470

In the middle of the quiet meal, John’s phone suddenly rang. He glanced at the caller,

and his expression twisted slightly.

“It’s Grandpa.”

Gordy’s eyes twitched slightly, but she continued looking down and eating her

breakfast. John would take it outside and away from her hearing range if it were a

private call.

After all, that’s what happened every time Jessica called.

“What is it?”

After a moment, a hint of panic flashed across John’s face.

Cordy wondered what had happened that could cause John’s mood to change so

drastically. She could see his hand holding the phone had also started to shake.

His eyes also seemed to have reddened.

“Okay. I got it.”

John put his phone down and sat silently for a long time, his eyes staring at nothing in

particular.

happened?’ Cordy finally

overwhelmed

an accident,’ John said, clearly trying his best to

in his

Cordy felt her heart get

the look on John’s face, it

car rolled off the mountainside at eleven. It was a

than the one your accident was at. They only managed

at the hospital right now. They’re not

make it.”

sounded choked up, and he was clearly struggling to

anxious then, and she didn’t know what to say, much

him.

to go back,” John

Cordy nodded. ’I’ll go with

stay here for now. It’s safer

Cordy moved to argue but ultimately decided to accept his

a fight at this

“I’ll be back as

I

out on seeing Jay because of her. What

lurch at the thought and didn’t

that.

still had a fighting chance as long as the hospital

Besides, medical technology had advanced a lot in modern days,

that Jay would

say anything more. He didn’t bother eating another bite of