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

Wasn’t he supposed to be

weighing on his mind.

down her phone. “What’s wrong,

“I saw that your lights

sleep? Or are

was once again

regarding him seriously but also teasing him.

Dicky’s little cheeks flushed, though Cordy already knew that-she just wanted Dicky

he asked, “Mommy, don’t

a hunch that was the

the only person whom Dicky would get melancholy

raise the

he’s alive?” Dicky said

a real shortage of miracles in this world,

what if

Cordy sighed. 1

had no idea how to curb Dicky’s enthusiasm and obsession

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

a moment, and there was a brief flash of disappointment in