A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1283

Cordy lay in bed, waiting for John.

He eventually emerged from the bathroom, absent-mindedly drying his hair as he changed into fresh pajamas.

He appeared surprised to find Cordy in bed. “Going to sleep too?”

“Can’t I?”

“No,’’ he quickly said. “I mean, you’d have trouble sleeping at the hospital while taking care of your grandfather.”

Cordy pursed her lips-that certainly was not the case.

In private hospitals, one could enjoy the hospitality usually expected from five-star hotels. With people at your beck and call, it certainly did not dull in comparison to one.

Still, John did not seem to notice Cordy’s feelings as he pulled up the blanket and got into bed.

suit after he did

he was alone in the same room with

firmly, he started

Cordy’s heart racing.

if there was some unknown force at work stopping them from consummating even though they were legally married

nervously for a long while, but John

desperate, and she remembered that he could

moving at all, and she could not

sound asleep, his breathing rhythmic and his

was left staring in disbelief-he actually fell asleep and

was left heaving from the grievance that seemed to stay stuck on her chest and was left tossing and turning,

little just then,

he moved aside-which left Cordy bristling! She was teasing him, only

him, she spotted the dark circles under his eye, an obvious sign that he had been working very

a little pained and she took a deep breath to calm