A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 571

Cordy told Dicky, ‘Til confirm the time with Nancy once I come home.”

“Okay, Mommy. I’m done eating-l’m going to school now.”

“I’ll drive you,” Cordy said, putting down her knife and fork.

Dicky frowned. “Shouldn’t you get some rest? You drank a lot last night.”

“I don’t feel anything since I’ve had honey and warm milk,” Cordy smiled.” All thanks to my baby.”

Dicky blushed a little-it had been years, but there was no changing that shyness.

How was he going to date girls when he got older?

Cordy sent him to school, and felt a little emotional as he watched Dicky enter the school with his towering frame.

She thought it had been a while since she saw her shrink, and had her chauffeur take her to the private clinic.

“Cordy,” Jim Brown, her personal shrink, greeted her warmly. “You’ve actually made time to visit.”

Cordy smiled, but said flatly, “My insomnia’s been getting worse.”

“Come on in.”

led Cordy into

homely room, giving anyone a sense of comfort as soon as they entered since it was decorated specifically for

of the chaise lounge, Jim brought her a fur blanket, and

That’s why

“Because you’re missing John?”

went nights without sleep,” she

missed John through the nights,

about-especially the moment

Good for him.

the other hand, was left with all the regrets she

he’s dead,” Jim said, passing her a

believed that he was alive, and I’d never dare think of it that way. I might suffer a

him,” Jim said, lighting a

down her tea cup and closing her eyes. “He’s there whenever there’s silence,

yourself to forget. It might only make it worse the more you did,” Jim

I can’t eat, I can’t sleep-l can’t even be interested in

you remember what I suggested

voice was deep and magnetic, which offered

thoughts were getting to her, to talk to him

“Which suggestion?”