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!”

thought you’re usually smarter than

despite her anger, so Patrick simply pointed

smoothly even if he said no

family in retaliation? Citizens

did you

“But he lost everything now,’ Cordy

individuals,” Patrick replied with no

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

with a ten-foot pole now that he’s been

around, since John

annul the engagement, and without

plot against him?” Cordy asked, skeptical about the logic

definitely retaliate for

capable of anything.”

have nothing to do with it,” Patrick

reputation to uphold, and William wouldn’t try to

least, not out in the open.

the Levines or anyone involved with them now

they should be looking

replace John.”

frustrated or vengeful

So there’s nothing to

left stumped at

whether John really sabotaged his own future just for this,

really arrested

that he would marry Jessica, didn’t

he let it be called off halfway

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