A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 491

Patrick chuckled and teased her, “So you actually can get nervous?” “I just want to

know the truth,” Cordy replied. “Jessica’s wedding with John concerns my safety and

personal gain.”

Yes, she was just being selfish. The only thing she cared about was whether she

could get Dicky even though the wedding fell through!

Patrick shrugged and stopped leaving her hanging. “Before John could say1 I do’,

Rocktown’s police commissioner himself stormed in with a warrant for his arrest.

Turns out John’s a suspect in a corporate criminal conspiracy.’

Cordy’s fingers clenched. Patrick asked her, “Do you know what that means?”

“The wedding’s off,” Cordy replied.

Patrick laughed at that. “Even I can’t bear to watch this, Cordy. The man would go this

far for you, not holding back from destroying his own reputation and his own future

just to stop this wedding. And you’re being this calm?”

“How else would I react? Can I change anything?” Cordy asked in return. “I don’t get

it-how is this different from just rejecting the engagement? He’d be ruining his

reputation, anyway!”

usually smarter than this,’ Patrick

so Patrick simply

if he said

in retaliation? Citizens should never pick

did you

“But he lost everything now,’ Cordy

protected certain individuals,” Patrick replied with

her lip, he continued, “Either way, Jessica’s family

ten-foot pole now that he’s been charged. Now it’s them who’s

and not the other way around, since John provided the perfect excuse for

annul the engagement, and without them

him?” Cordy asked, skeptical

would definitely retaliate for not getting

capable of anything.”

“Maybe, but Jessica’s family would have nothing to do with it,” Patrick

reputation to uphold, and William wouldn’t try to kick John

not out in the open.

wouldn’t waste time on the Levines or anyone

they should be looking for

replace John.”

frustrated or vengeful Jessica would be, she would

there’s nothing to

left stumped at

had no idea whether John really sabotaged his own

was really arrested for

They agreed that he would marry Jessica,

How could he let it

I just asked around,” Patrick told her. “He’s being