A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1

The former top heiress of North City was getting married, despite her reputation that was left in tatters for her alleged debauchery.

Naturally, high society was left in an uproar once word got out.

…

Cordy Sachs, who was dressed in a Franconia designer wedding dress, was looking at the reflection of her dazzling, beautiful face in the mirror.

After dating Kyle Wickham for three years, they were finally tying the knot—he still loved her even though everyone was trying to put her down.

Smiling expectantly with tears welling in her eyes, she reared her chin slightly as she lifted her skirt and started toward the door… only for rolling wisps of smoke to seep through the slit around the door, creeping into the washroom impatiently as if looking for an outlet.

A fire?!

Cordy’s face fell. Pinching her nose as she stepped outside, she found the banquet hall that had been exceedingly lively a second ago now empty.

There was only the thick smoke and fire that seemed bent on consuming everything.

She did not hesitate to head toward the location of the exit in her memory, but she would be lying if she said she was not afraid of the rolling smoke and the blinding flames.

That was when a man suddenly charged inside the hall.

It was Cordy’s fiance, Kyle Jessop.

Seemingly seeing salvation, she cried out as she coughed and spluttered, “Kyle, I’m here…”

Kyle, however, ignored her as he looked around anxiously.

Then, pausing for a moment as if finding his target, he did not hesitate to run in the opposite direction from Cordy, even though every second counted.

Then, as Cordy looked on, he picked up another woman who had been caught within the hall like Cordy and hurried outside.

“I knew you would come for me, Kyle…” Cordy could clearly hear the woman’s enfeebled voice, at once tender and aggrieved. “I was so afraid…”

abruptly felt as if she was bludgeoned, her vision blacking out as she felt

belonged to her stepsister, Noel

everything on the line to save Noel, but not her!

pieces as if sliced through by a razor blade, and it was a suffocation more lethal than the

glass chandelier overhead suddenly came crashing

Clang!

front of Cordy, cutting off her escape even as she dropped

saw Cordy falling behind

of the hall without a care

verge of death, but she could still clearly hear him tenderly assuring Noel, “It’s

‘I’m here now…’

her but she

only watch as that familiar figure

…

to survive—amid her despair, the firefighters arrived

blunt trauma on her right leg—she was unconscious

next morning

beautiful early summer day in North City and a ray of sunshine landed on her pale, frail cheeks and her

the clouds above. Her calm visage showed no

suddenly opened the door to her ward, and she turned to find her father, stepmother, and Noel in the room

alright, Cordy?” Noel asked tearfully.

right then was the sight of Kyle saving Noel. She averted her eyes from

always so rude! Don’t you see that your sister cares about you?” her father, Simon

want to talk.

either, and said right away, “You probably know by now, but Noel’s the one Kyle actually loves, and

laughed despite her fury and

with utter conviction. “You’d already dragged our family’s name through the mud when you had a child out of wedlock! All of North City knows that, and did

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