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.

followed suit after he did and slowly slid to his

recall a day when he was alone

he started to

Cordy’s heart racing.

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

long while, but John was not making a

should be desperate, and she remembered that he could not sleep

moving at all, and she could not feel his body stiffening,

find him sound asleep,

actually fell asleep and

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

little just then, as if to

Cordy under his weight, making her uncomfortable, so he moved aside-which

the dark circles under his eye, an obvious sign that he had been

little pained and she took a deep breath