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?!

not get too involved

to offer you a sense of security,” John said. “I will restrain myself

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. From that connection alone,

Ms.

expect such a definitive rejection from him-it was utterly

Dicky’s

left wondering if he wanted to say

“Or my wife.”

was speechless-that was

mind and therefore telling her

said, refraining from arguing stubbornly because it was pointless to go any further.

John

“What?”

washroom,” John suddenly

called out of the blue, huh?

company until he fell asleep before leaving the

was very late into the night when Simon finally called her, saying that Fabian Locke and Dean Longman would hand in their resignations tomorrow.

as John texted her, saying that Simon was at the hospital, and that Simon had paid him a huge sum in

come to my office-there will be a heads of departments meeting in half an hour. Warn them not to

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