A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 890

John refused. “No, I should go back to my room. The doctor did tell me not to move around too much. I just came to tell you I’m fine, and there’s nothing to worry about.’

Even as he spoke, he started to turn and leave.

“Lucas,” Cordy called out to him just then.

John flinched slightly—he knew Cordy was actually aware of who he truly was, because he heard her saying that to him while he was still supposedly unconscious.

He recovered quickly because of her voice too, but he was afraid to admit that he had already remembered everything at that instant.

“Let me see you off,” Cordy said, not waiting for John to say no and wheeling herself out to follow.

They silently and slowly strolled along the long walkways of the hospital, neither of them speaking.

The silence between them was deafening, until they both stopped in front of John’s room.

John turned towards her, watching her pale cheeks, her body that was covered in bandages, and her scrawny form…

impulse not to pull

did give me an actual answer,”

dull ache

wasn’t as solid

give up on him if he gave in and married

to say anything, she

reaching out

him,

him, he

now, when she made the choice to be with him, there was another woman with

destined to

love me, don’t you?” Cordy asked him before

Yes.

to fight for her

herself, that she could quietly

that just one