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.

longer shaking, and her breathing assumed a regular rhythm as she buried her head over his

Lucas gulped.

might be slim, but she was perky where she needed

Lucas opened his eyes and

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

fell asleep- perhaps

was deliberately seducing him, but she did not really do anything out

Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung to him even harder, her lips

‘Damn it.’

breath, worried that something would really happen if this

steeled himself as

the moment to get out of bed, panting as he

out, Cordy was still asleep, but this time burying her face into the pillow where

she not

was about to shift her, but he eventually