A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1075

‘Why did you come back here?” Nana exclaimed in surprise, though she understood at the next instant. “You cant get out, can you?”

John did not answer, though he might well be admitting it with his silence.

‘Why did you think I helped you, Lucas?” she demanded tearfully. “Would what you take really destroy my family?”

She was also keeping her voice as soft as possible, in fear that anyone outside would hear her.

Even if she really wanted to murder him right then, she was still too soft to do it.

‘How far are you going to go, Lucas? Is Cordy really worth the trouble?” Nana asked, bewildered. “Is there anything about me that does not compare to her? Can’t you just spend your days with me in peace?”

‘I won’t lie to you.”

’I don’t mind. As long as you’re with me, I don’t care that your heart belongs to someone else. And I’m confident that you would fall for me eventually.”

’In the past, maybe. But now that Cordy has appeared, no one can take her place,” John said bluntly.

I can change! I’ll change my

backward, Nana. Losing yourself in love is selfish, not noble.” John

Nana laughed in irony. “So what if I am? Aren’t you selfish too?! No, you’re actually savage! What right do you have to destroy

‘You forced my hand.”

you? You had

never

it. “No, I won’t. As long as you’re

I don’t love you,’ John said, cutting her short. “I’m no machine-l have feelings, and I can’t lie

lip but

never going

you’d give up on your own life for Cordy,

have held any expectations

again and snapped icily, “Why should I, when you don’t care about my family! If you love Cordy

words, she strode out of the room

Yes.

ruin everything for a man who

him wish