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.”

Cordy pursed her lips, her eyes

patience had already worn out. She stood

the

clean,’ she told the bodyguards as she

ma’am,”

Jessica gestured for another bodyguard to open

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

so there’s no need to regret anything-you should’ve been

time ago!”

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

her very

eyes, the two bodyguards behind her promptly

the man…only to find

and aiming it at the

left a gap between their formation, so that Patrick,

wheelchair behind them,

in his eyes at all, and he was frighteningly

bodyguards Jessica posted outside the door were long

on the floor.

she growled through clenched teeth, ’What

you are doing, dear

“Exactly what you’re doing,” Patrick

sure you want to turn against me over this

she’s the reason we’re at each