A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 496

Suddenly, Alan said, “Take him with you.”

Cordy did a double take, thinking she had misheard.

She looked up at Alan, and saw a glimmer in his eyes-the glimmer of compromising

with what life brought.

Even if he was already seventy and confined to a wheelchair, he remained healthy

and spirited, just as he was elegant and imposing. She didn’t think that the day would

come when life had him beat, since she was convinced that even if age wore him

down, his spirit would always remain staunch.

“Dicky will live with you from now on,” Alan repeated.

“What about you?’ Cordy did not say no-because she could not.

that choice, he must have given it due

enough, and it’s time I let go,’ he said somberly. “I

my family had flourished

of autocratic leadership.

start.”

There was no doubt

say something like that, he had well

Alan continued, his eyes seemed to well with tears. “I was the one who

business discussion, and they’d neve

I was the one who stubbornly

was why he had that accident. If

us, Jay would’ve been content with staying in the

tragedy could have been

do with you…” Cordy tried

simply shook his head,

now, there’s John. If I didn’t stubbornly force him to marry

to resort to such

engagement annulled.’