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 the connection

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

like to see my birth certificate as well, Ms. Sachs?”

even as Zoe

two?” Zoe could not

misunderstood that I was

he suddenly felt a dainty hand on his lips.

from his chest, her eyes pleading

was just so embarrassing, it was more than

it on her palm along with his warmth–as if she was being kissed.

quickly withdrew her hand from his lips, Zoe was perplexed by their curious

go now,” John

she supposed

leaving?” John said then,

Zoe was scared of him,