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…”

bludgeoned, her vision blacking out as she felt a

to her stepsister, Noel Sachs.

put everything on the line to save Noel, but not

in pieces as if sliced through by a razor blade, and it was a

as she was rendered speechless, the glass chandelier

Clang!

cutting off her escape even as she dropped

turned around just then and saw Cordy falling behind him—but he

the hall without a

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

‘I’m here now…’

surrounded her but she felt utterly cold inside.

that familiar figure slowly disappeared

…

the firefighters arrived just in

much smoke and suffered blunt trauma on her right leg—she was unconscious when they

not until the next morning that she

North City and a ray

the blue sky and the clouds above. Her calm visage showed no emotion, and she was so

ward, and she turned to find her father, stepmother, and

alright, Cordy?” Noel asked tearfully.

Cordy could think about right then was the sight of Kyle saving Noel. She averted her eyes from them.

see that your sister cares about you?” her father, Simon Sachs, snapped right then.

Sue Yorkman, could see that Cordy did not want to talk. Sue quickly told him, “Simon, Cordy is

but Noel’s the one Kyle actually loves, and it’s a lucky coincidence that the wedding was disrupted. So give them your blessing and announce the

laughed despite her fury and

Simon said 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 you really think the Jessops would accept someone with such a questionable past?

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