A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 153

Looking up at Cordy just then, Zoe asked, “You must be curious as to how John ended up bringing Dicky home, aren’t you?”

Cordy nodded, and Zoe gave her an ‘I-knew-it’ look. “Of course he doesn’t tell you a thing.”

In reality, Cordy simply did not ask.

At the same time, Zoe searched her memory and said, “John was twenty-one when Dicky was brought home… and by our grandfather, at that. Actually, John did not even know that he had a kid, but as for how our grandfather knows? Let’s just say he’s omnipotent and leave it at that. Anyway, I remembered that John was still abroad when our grandfather came home with Dicky, and I overheard him speaking over the phone that the mother abandoned Dicky at the hospital after delivering him, so our grandfather brought him back.”

Cordy felt a pain in her chest.

Although John had told her that Richard’s mother had abandoned him, she was still stunned to find out that Richard was abandoned at birth.

The very thought left her suffocating, just as she remembered her own child.

to keep it so badly, only

tears just then, while Zoe almost jumped in shock at Cordy’s

Cordy murmured as her tears guashed. “My chest just

Dicky at the time too. How cruel could that woman be to abandon her own son? I’d never forgive her if I were John!” Zoe huffed, before adding after some thought,” Though I think John doesn’t forgive

righteous indignation, “I’m actually curious too. What woman could be so crazy that she’d abandon John and Dicky? Is he not handsome enough for her? Or is he not rich enough, or not powerful enough? She’s definitely blind.”

too, to leave John without a care after sleeping with him.

Zoe sighed and continued, “There was this one time when Bob Davis and I got drunk and discussed that woman, and we both agreed that she must be a stranger who met John by chance. She probably doesn’t know about John’s power and wealth, and probably thinks him

throat, taken by

would any woman

far cry

to her senses. “Zoe, shouldn’t

actually impressed that Zoe could stay unaffected and gossip about John

for so long-it’ll be resolved eventually. There were rumors before that I’ve risen through the ranks thanks to my connection with some bigwig, and in this case, if not