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.”

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

her. Still, she

you like to see my birth certificate as well,

Zoe

gotten into you two?” Zoe could not help

misunderstood that I

as he suddenly felt a dainty hand on

looked up from his chest, her eyes pleading

was more than

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

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

can go now,” John told

clearly upset at that–was she

said then, his tone a

without saying that Zoe was scared of him, even as a