A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 161

Chapter 161

Cordy shook her head. “I’m fine.”

She was just scalded a little by the boiling water, and it only hurt for a split second-she could bear with it.

However, she felt genuine danger as John got even closer.

He was already tall, while she was dainty even though he put her on the bar-she did not even reach his height even though she was sitting so high up!

He did not seem to hear her either, and he was studying her fair, delicate fingers for injury. After ensuring there were no red burns on her hand, he eventually said, “Ms. Sachs, you’re always bumbling around, aren’t you?”

He was being critical, but somehow, he sounded ever so tender.

“I’m not!” Cordy retorted, though she suddenly lost confidence after that.

She just realized that she messed up as many times as she cooked for John at her place.

Meeting John’s meaningful gaze just then, she admitted, “It’s just around you.”

She never messed up around others, after all.

lips curling upward-clearly satisfied by the answer. “I’m honored that you feel natural around me, Ms. Sachs.”

huffed. Why did he always

pointing out, “The pasta will get

bar,

it gets mushy,” she

John said. “You just stay put,

she was being treated like a child again, just like Richard, though Richard could probably swear his daddy had

of the

picked up Cordy from

simple combination of pasta, broccoli, eggs, and some ham,

living room couch, perfectly

she was planning to come up with some

Starstream Group by day,

designs aside

refusing to

my account,” John said, as if

the way he put it… Whose house was this

heart soon skipped a beat.

to eat at her house because he knew she would be busy and he was

touched, she turned and

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