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 as she held them

looking with a smile

turn and leave again, he

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

it? And he picked it

he not understand that there were things that must not be simply picked

promptly snatched her bra off his hands and left as

was on

and it was

up and was about to send John away, she noticed in surprise that he was carrying her

hairdryer

it in before saying, “I’ll help you dry your hair”

speechless, he continued, “As thanks for taking care of Dicky, and for personally making

than enough,” Cordy

I’d rather you didn’t wear a gown bought with someone else’s money, I’m good enough a businessman to not reject value.”

impressed that he could act so natural even when

same time, John said nothing else

was only the sound of the hairdryer and a pounding