A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 75

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?!

was too dangerous-she must not get too involved with him.

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

loves me, and I won’t lie to you-I love the boy

Ms. Sachs.”

such a definitive rejection from him-it

either Dicky’s mommy, or…

Cordy was left wondering

“Or my wife.”

was the

therefore telling her assuredly, “You

refraining from arguing stubbornly because it was pointless to

John replied

“What?”

the washroom,” John suddenly said.

was speechless again. Nature really called out of the blue,

until he fell asleep before leaving the

her, saying that Fabian Locke and Dean Longman would hand in their resignations tomorrow. He would also bring the

letters arrived the next morning just as John texted her, saying that Simon was at the hospital, and that Simon had paid

behind her desk, Cordy called her secretary from the internal phone line. “Vince? Ask the CEO to come to my office-there will be a heads of departments meeting in half an hour. Warn them

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