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.

did, he could clearly sense that she was no longer shaking, and her breathing assumed

Lucas gulped.

be slim, but she was perky where she needed

morning, Lucas opened his eyes and

lowered his gaze to find that Cordy was still clinging to him with a bear’s grip-she certainly slept well, while he did not sleep at

all, Cordy’s hands were up to more mischief after she fell asleep- perhaps even

have suspected that she was deliberately seducing him,

sense his departure and clung to him even harder, her lips just inches

‘Damn it.’

swore under his breath, worried that something would really happen

steeled himself as

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

was finished and stepped out, Cordy was still asleep, but this time burying

she not

shift her, but