A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 624

Even as Cordy meekly leaned into Lucas’ arms, she was shuddering slightly as if afraid-as if she were abandoned.

Lucas inhaled deeply in turn, feeling unusually grouchy.

He had no idea why, but he just was.

No other woman had put him through a roller coaster of emotions like this —when he wanted to push her away, he chose to bear with it as he held her shaking body.

“Consider this my reward, Cordy,” he told her then.

Cordy never heard, even as he continued, “For letting me stay.”

There was no telling if he was just telling himself that either.

But at the next instant, he lay down again and gathered her in his arms.

shaking, and

Lucas gulped.

be slim, but she was perky where she

arrived the next morning, Lucas opened his eyes and

clinging to him with a bear’s grip-she certainly slept well, while he did not sleep

up to more mischief after she fell asleep- perhaps even worse than when she did the

suspected that she was deliberately seducing him, but she did not really do

out of bed, Cordy seemed to sense his

‘Damn it.’

under his breath, worried that something would really happen if

steeled himself as he pried

clear displeasure, but he seized the moment to get out of bed, panting as he strode into the bathroom and splashed his own face with

still asleep, but this time burying her face into the

not afraid

to shift her, but he