A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 688

[Oh.]

Quinn didn’t ask further questions at that. She knew that Cordy’s life was all about Dicky now, and Cordy would never say no to the boy.

Zoe then added: [By the way, I miss him a little now that you’ve mentioned him.]

Cordy offered: [Want to see him? He’s a little hunk now, and almost my height.]

Zoe refused. [Forget it. That can wait until I’m successful… I mean, I used to be, so I can’t let Dicky feel that I’m down and out. Or at least as successful as Cora.]

[You’re still as successful as her.] Quinn butted in.

[Zip it. Do you think you’d be that nonchalant if you’re in my place? I’ve just been assigned a harder grind for now. Once I overcome this, I’ll be a star again.]

Cordy couldn’t help smiling at that.

Just then, someone knocked on her door.

“Come in,” she said.

Dicky entered her room in dark-blue pajamas.

time to see that it was already past

he doing up? Wasn’t

on his mind. What on

down her phone. “What’s wrong,

saw that your

aren’t you sleeping? Can’t sleep? Or are

Dicky was once again

him seriously but also teasing him. “Is there a girl you

cheeks flushed, though Cordy already

he asked, “Mommy, don’t

hunch

only person whom Dicky

can’t raise the dead,” she

he’s alive?” Dicky

of miracles in

if Lucas

Cordy sighed. 1

curb Dicky’s enthusiasm and obsession with Lucas, since even

I’d rather your daddy stay dead, than find out that Lucas

there was