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

ears were blushing harder than when he bit her. Still, she nodded without

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

her head, even as Zoe

into you two?” Zoe could not help

Though someone misunderstood that I was two–timing-”

he suddenly felt a dainty hand

chest, her eyes pleading him to

than enough for John alone to

up and she could clearly feel it on her palm along with

Zoe was perplexed by their curious interaction. “What on earth are you up

can go now,” John told Zoe.

clearly upset at that–was she

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

scared of him, even as a child.