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

harder than when he bit her. Still, she

birth certificate as well,

shook her head, even as Zoe was left even more

gotten into you two?” Zoe could

Though someone misunderstood that I was two–timing-”

blinked as he suddenly felt a dainty hand

also looked up from his chest,

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

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

his lips, Zoe was perplexed by

can go now,” John told Zoe.

was clearly upset at that–was she supposed to stay

then, his tone a little

that Zoe was scared