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

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

told him solemnly. “We can still be friends. Dicky loves me, and I won’t lie to you-I love the

Ms.

did not expect such a definitive rejection from him-it was utterly merciless, and offered no grounds for

either Dicky’s mommy, or…

blinked, Cordy was left wondering if he wanted to say ‘nothing’.

“Or my wife.”

was the same

her mind and therefore telling her assuredly, “You don’t get

refraining from arguing stubbornly because it was pointless to

did,” John replied quietly.

“What?”

the washroom,” John suddenly

was speechless again. Nature really called

until he fell asleep before leaving the hospital.

in their resignations tomorrow. He would also bring the culprit to the hospital to visit

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

phone line. “Vince? Ask the CEO to come to

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