A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 125

Cousin?!

Cordy flinched while she was still in John’s arms, and he clearly felt her move!

“Come here,” John then told Zoe.

Zoe did so tentatively with an unsteady gait. Though her cheeks were flushed from alcohol, she looked utterly afraid, like a child about to ask their parents for forgiveness.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you making out,” she said with a wounded tone. “I just needed to pee.”

On the other hand, although Cordy had been resistant toward being intimate with John, she was left so utterly awkward she buried her head within John’s embrace, too ashamed to show her face. John certainly knew that Cordy was embarrassed, but he was not letting her off the hook either. He pressed, “And what do you call my grandfather?”

“John, you’re scaring me.” Zoe’s pupils were dilating–did he somehow lose every bit of intelligence from making out?!

Still, seeing the serious look from her cousin, she had to answer honestly. “Grandfather.”

Cordy, who was still hiding her face, “So? Do you understand the connection

her. Still, she nodded without looking up, keeping her head against

you like to see my birth certificate as

as Zoe was left even more puzzled

into you two?” Zoe

someone misunderstood that I was

blinked as he suddenly felt a

chest, her

just so embarrassing, it was more than enough for John alone to be

she could clearly feel it on her palm along with his warmth–as if she

his lips, Zoe was perplexed by their curious interaction. “What on earth are you

can go now,”

was clearly upset at that–was she supposed to stay or

aren’t you leaving?” John said then, his tone a little sterner.

scared of him, even as