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.

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

stared at him, unable to understand what he

you away/

Cordy laughed despite herself.

infuriated—what did John take her for, a door to open and close as he

“I thought I could persevere until I resolved everything

I faced

you trying to say? Cordy

would die here… I was suddenly afraid, and unsure which would

an extramarital affair,

going to mess around with another woman behind your wife… To be honest, John, I never

he already expected this the instant he planned to

knew how morally righteous Cordy was, and that she would never be the other woman in

would die, just as he refused to see

that by the time he was