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?!

dangerous-she must not get too involved with him.

“I will restrain myself

be friends. Dicky loves me, and I won’t lie to you-I love the boy too. From that connection alone, you

Ms. Sachs.”

a definitive rejection from him-it was utterly merciless, and offered

either Dicky’s mommy, or…

John blinked, Cordy was left wondering if he

“Or my wife.”

was the same

John said, clearly reading her mind and therefore telling her

from arguing stubbornly because it was pointless to go

already did,” John replied

“What?”

the washroom,”

really called out of the blue,

until he fell asleep

in their resignations tomorrow. He would

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

internal phone line. “Vince? Ask the CEO to come to my office-there will be a

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