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.”

Cordy

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

brought her a fur blanket, and poured her the black tea he brewed as he chatted with

That’s why

“Because you’re missing John?”

nights without sleep,”

wanted to say that she missed John through the nights, to the point that she couldn’t sleep

all she could think about-especially the moment

Good for him.

other hand, was left with

passing her

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

Jim said, lighting a scented candle that

Cordy said, putting down her tea cup and closing her eyes. “He’s there whenever there’s silence, and he’s there when I

forget. It might only make it

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

what I

magnetic, which offered a sense of

were getting to her,

“Which suggestion?”