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.

starting to regret it now…” John finally said, his voice

stared at him, unable to

pushing you

Cordy laughed despite herself.

did John take her for, a door to

“I thought I could persevere until I resolved everything and return to your side, single and unabated.

faced death.”

trying to

split second that we would die here… I was suddenly afraid, and

to indulge your selfish desire with an extramarital

woman behind your wife… To be honest, John, I never would have dreamt that you’d be capable of something like

words stung John, but he already expected this the instant he planned to

be the other woman in a relationship no matter how

that Cordy would die, just as he refused

worried that by the time he was done, she would