A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1098

‘You’ve done your best,” John told Cordy. ’I don’t hate you-no, I’m thankful that you came for me in the end. Promise me that you’ll live well instead of mourning me, and spend your days in happiness with Patrick. I’ve looked into him… He’s changed over the years because of you, and he’s worth entrusting the rest of your life with.”

Even so, Cordy’s tears could not stop.

’Go,” John urged her again-any slower and she would not make it.

Cordy bit her lip, but just as she was about to turn away, her bodyguard suddenly said, “Wait.”

Cordy promptly turned toward him, an irrepressible sense of hopefulness igniting within her head and causing her to shudder ever so slightly.

She actually thought she could not take more crushed hopes just then.

’I think the chains are breaking!” the bodyguard exclaimed in surprise nonetheless. “I see a crack. Should I keep trying, Ms. Sachs?”

’Yes.” Cordy nodded without hesitation.

stop them, but the smoke was now so thick he could not even manage a full

hammer and struck the chains violently a handful of

their priority was to stay alive and

John quickly too, since he was too weak to stand after the chains stopped supporting his

bodyguard, who had been carrying it

Cordy’s orders, he quickly picked it up and helped John, who had to withstand the agony

Cordy, but he could

really could not bear to leave her at all, and he could actually feel her fear that he would actually

did not dare to push her away again,

teeth and rose to stand

surprise-she had seen the terrible shape he

make

not say another word, and the

the fire might have brought down