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.”

gaze then and asked Cordy, who was still hiding her face, “So? Do you understand the connection between me and Zoe now,

when he bit her. Still, she nodded without

see my birth certificate as well, Ms.

Zoe was left even more puzzled

you two?” Zoe could

someone misunderstood that I was two–timing-”

suddenly felt a dainty hand

from his chest, her eyes pleading him

just so embarrassing, it was more than

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

perplexed by their curious interaction. “What

can go now,” John told Zoe.

she supposed to stay or

John said then, his tone a little sterner.

Zoe was scared of him, even