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.

sense that she was no longer shaking, and her breathing assumed a regular rhythm as

Lucas gulped.

was perky where she needed

the next morning, Lucas opened his eyes and immediately

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

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

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

Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung

‘Damn it.’

his breath, worried that something would really happen if this

himself as he pried her hands

the moment to get out of bed, panting as he strode into the

still asleep, but this time burying her face into the pillow where he just

she not

her, but he eventually chose