A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 50

Cordy got out of bed and turned to find a glass of yellow liquid on her nightstand.

It had a note on its bottom, which read:

[Honey helps with hangovers. Remember to have breakfast after you wake up-your belly is empty after vomiting, and it’s bad for your help. P.S.: I will be leaving on a business trip and shall return to North City in a week.]

The sharp handwriting was just like the handwriting on the invitation to last night’s banquet.

Cordy picked up the honey and took a sip.

There was a sweetness in its chill, which seemed to seep into the chest.

She felt a mysterious sensation inside at the same time, and she suddenly wondered why John insisted on making her wait last night, just so that he could give her a ride home.

Was it because he had to leave on that business trip and they would not be meeting for a while?

Cordy put down her glass and headed to the bathroom, where she took off the dirty gown and took a bath.

Once she did that, she threw the gown into the trash can.

free anyway, and it was no skin off her back.

living room, intending on lying down for a while on the couch since hangovers really left

she remembered John’s note saying an empty

and went to her kitchen, but just as she was going to make a

glanced at the caller, and simply declined

and scrolled through the news,

pursed her lips but ultimately tapped on the notification and immediately

showed John grabbing on to Zoe York, who

were clearly complicated between them.

arrived

Cordy. John Levine would never be faithful to you-he’s just playing with you, thinking you’re pretty. I promise you, a man like him would have

saying that his daddy liked Zoe.

so, she continued munching on her toast and nonchalantly typed a reply:

really knows who’s playing with who?]

with that, she blocked

Villa, Kyle woke up very early and started scrolling through the

there was nothing about Alan Levine’s seventieth birthday, Kyle’s own humiliation,

must have enforced a