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

comfort as soon as they

fur blanket, and poured her

why I’m

“Because you’re missing John?”

went nights without sleep,” she

that she missed John through the nights, to the

all she could think about-especially the moment when he left her, telling her that

Good for him.

with all

he’s dead,” Jim said, passing her a glass of

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

Jim said, lighting a scented candle that released a relaxing

cup and closing her eyes. “He’s there whenever there’s silence, and he’s there when I

yourself to forget. It might only make

him is seriously affecting my life. I can’t eat,

you remember what I suggested

magnetic, which offered a sense of

often came here when her thoughts were getting to her, to talk to

“Which suggestion?”