A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 485

Cordy regarded Jessica coolly while her body stiffened ever so slightly, a chill

unwittingly running down her spine.

Even so, she repressed the terror seizing her chest and remained incredibly calm.

But even if Cordy didn’t show it, Jessica knew for sure that Cordy was afraid—no one

would feel nothing in this situation.

“Never crossed your mind that I’d go this far, have you?’ She laughed savagely. “Don’t

you regret dying by my hand in this fashion? I wont mind admitting trying and failing to

take your life so many times, only for you to be so kind as to send yourself to my

doorstep. You really shouldn’t get full of yourself, y’know?”

“Do you think John would forgive you if you killed me?’ Cordy asked her.

“Would he forgive me even if I don’t?” Jessica asked in return. “He’d treat me the

same, and it’s just better for me if I eliminated a potential threat. And who knows?

With you dead, maybe he’d completely give up when there’s nothing left for him.”

pursed her lips, her eyes

worn out. She stood up opposite

down on Cordy, the delight in her

clean,’ she told the bodyguards as she

ma’am,” they

that, Jessica gestured for another bodyguard to open the door for

“Sorry, Cordy, but I’m not staying for the mess. You’ve been allowed

no need to regret anything-you should’ve been

time ago!”

the door opened, Jessica was left staring at a black barrel trained

very

two bodyguards behind

aim at the man…only to find over a dozen men in

out and aiming

left a gap between their formation, so that Patrick, who was

them,

his eyes

outside the door

on the floor.

visibly, she growled through clenched teeth, ’What do

you are

what you’re

want to turn

reason we’re at each