Chapter 75

Before Cordy could speak, John added sharply, “And don’t tell me you weren’t being distant. I have a heart; I can feel it.”

In other words, he was telling her not to lie to him.

Cordy stared at him in silence for a while before asking, “I thought you knew?”

“No, I don’t,” he replied, not bothered to play around.

“I don’t believe in love, and I’ve rejected you before already,” Cordy said, lowering her gaze in fear of meeting him. “It’s just your stubbornness talking.”

She did not want to admit that it was because of Zoe York.

There would be no ‘other woman’ if he never wanted to be with her.

“So you mean to say that my effort was bearing fruit, which was why you’re deliberately distancing yourself?” John asked, as if to confirm it.

Cordy was taken aback, but she admitted it with her silence.

What other reason was there?!

not get

you a sense of security,” John said. “I will restrain myself as best as I can from now

could just give up,” Cordy told him solemnly. “We can still be friends. Dicky loves me, and I won’t lie to you-I love the boy too.

Ms. Sachs.”

rejection from him-it was utterly merciless, and offered no grounds for

either Dicky’s mommy, or…

left wondering

“Or my wife.”

was

and therefore telling her assuredly, “You don’t

regret it, Mr. Levine,” Cordy said, refraining from arguing stubbornly because it

did,” John replied quietly.

“What?”

washroom,” John

really called out of the blue, huh?

fell asleep before leaving

finally called her, saying that Fabian Locke and Dean Longman would hand in their resignations

John texted her, saying that Simon was at the hospital, and that Simon had paid

line. “Vince? Ask the CEO to come to my office-there will be a heads of departments meeting in half an hour.

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