A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 31

Cordy was speechless-she was under the impression that John had missed her message “Then what are you doing here?”

“Dinner

Cordy somehow had no comeback against that.

“Where’s the bathroom?” John asked.

“My room,” Cordy replied-she was living alone and did not need a shared bathroom, so she just had it cleared for a study instead.

John entered, glancing at Richard, who was sleeping soundly in bed, before heading inside the bathroom.

Cordy was going to turn and leave when she remembered something, and she dashed toward the bathroom just as John was about to close the door

John raised a brow “Ms. Sachs “”

Cordy flushed again-she had left her clothes and undergarments in the bathroom after showering

flustered

with a

turn and leave again,

once more-he was holding her bra, even flapping them between his well- built fingers!

he picked it

not be simply picked up from the floor?

off his hands and

was

adults and it was nothing to be

got up and was about to send John away, she

hairdryer

socket and plugged it in before saying,

taking care of Dicky,

is way more than enough,” Cordy replied bluntly.

the payment,” John replied. “Even if I’d rather you didn’t wear a gown bought with someone else’s money, I’m

that he could act so natural even when there’s so much money

time, John said nothing else and untied her hair to dry it.

only the sound of the hairdryer and a pounding heart.