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.

that she was no longer shaking, and

Lucas gulped.

be slim, but she was perky where

Lucas opened his eyes and immediately felt a sore

clinging to him with a bear’s grip-she certainly slept well, while he did

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

would have suspected that she was deliberately seducing him, but she

to get out of bed, Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung to him even harder, her lips just

‘Damn it.’

that something would

and steeled himself as he pried her

the moment to get out of bed, panting as he strode into the bathroom and splashed his own face

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

not afraid of

her,