A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1000

John pursed his lips and said slowly, “I just wanted to check on you, see how you’re recovering.” “I’m doing well,* Cordy replied. “I can be discharged tomorrow, if nothing else happens.”

Silence ensued after she answered, until Cordy asked again, “How are you doing?”

“I’m fine.”

“Nana isn’t around today?”

‘No.’

“I thought she’s with you 24/7.”

“She went home. There seemed to be something back home.”

“So why are you here?” Cordy asked again.

Her patience was almost used up, and she had kept trying to make John talk just to make him open up.

However, he ultimately lost.

now…” John finally said, his voice

him, unable to

you away/

Cordy laughed despite herself.

for,

I resolved everything and return to

I faced death.”

trying to say? Cordy asked

the fire, and thought for a split second that we would die here… I

planning to indulge your selfish desire with an extramarital affair, ”

she went on, “So you’re going to mess around with another woman behind your wife… To be honest, John, I never would have dreamt

this the instant he planned to

knew how morally righteous Cordy was, and that she would never be the other woman in a relationship no matter how righteous

traumatized by the prospect that Cordy would die, just as he

by the time he was done, she would be