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 into this

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

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 from work

why I’m losing

“Because you’re missing John?”

nights without

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

was all she could think about-especially the moment when he left

Good for him.

the other hand, was left with all the regrets she could possibly

passing her

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

you can’t forget him,” Jim said, lighting a scented candle

matter how much I try,” Cordy said, putting down her tea cup and closing her eyes. “He’s there whenever there’s silence,

only

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

what

magnetic, which offered a sense

were getting to her, to talk to

“Which suggestion?”