A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 541

Cordy quietly ate her bowl of oatmeal without feeling its taste.

At the same time, Bob helped John bandage that gruesome swelling on the back of his hand. It hurt Bob to look at it, but he had no words of comfort.

He also remembered Richard, and the thought of something terrible happening to a little boy like Richard…

No, he could not bear to let himself think that.

And it would naturally be worse for his biological parents.

Bob simply assured himself that the boy was born lucky and would be free from trouble.

After bandaging John, Bob offered, “Want to step out for a smoke?’

with him. ‘Keeping yourself tense like this won’t work. Just

certainly could not bear John hurting himself like

as John would

just trying to get John preoccupied or his

Bob called out to Sam before John could give his

over while Cordy

a matter of fact, they needed to unwind after sitting in

let herself relax, not even for a

that once she did, she would remember Richard… and she fell apart inside whenever

John. They tried to speak multiple times, but were not

the Levines, and they seemed to be denied peace ever since Zoe was found not to be Nancy’s biological

John…

suffering necessarily follow a happy

should head home/ John suddenly