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

the delight in her

“Make it clean,’ she told the bodyguards as she

“Yes, ma’am,”

gestured for another bodyguard to open

gloating, “Sorry, Cordy, but I’m not staying for

for far too long, so there’s no need to regret anything-you should’ve been dead a

time ago!”

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

her very own

her eyes, the two bodyguards behind her

at the man…only to find over a dozen men in black outside,

out and aiming

gap between their formation, so that Patrick,

wheelchair behind them, could peer through

emotion in his eyes

Jessica posted outside the door were long since

on the floor.

she growled through clenched

you are doing, dear

you’re

you want to turn against me over this

the reason