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

room, giving anyone a sense of comfort as soon as they entered since it was

Cordy lay down on the soft cushion of the chaise lounge, Jim brought her a fur blanket, and poured her the black tea he brewed as he chatted with her nonchalantly, “Any pressure

That’s why I’m

“Because you’re missing John?”

without

wanted to say that she missed John through the nights, to

think about-especially the moment when he left her, telling

Good for him.

the other hand, was left with all

dead,” Jim said, passing her a glass

sip. “I know. I never believed that he was alive, and I’d never dare think of it that

forget him,” Jim said, lighting

can’t, no matter how much I try,” Cordy said, putting down her tea cup and closing her eyes. “He’s there whenever there’s silence,

might only make it worse

is seriously affecting my life. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep-l can’t even be interested in

remember what

voice was deep and magnetic,

getting to her, to talk to him and

“Which suggestion?”