A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

*John…”

“I’m sorry I was late,” John said.

Cordy frowned, wondering if she was imagining it.

Somehow, this John was different from the usual John, who was more aloof.

Now, he seemed to feel emotions like humans do

Still, she wiggled against his hold, not sure what he was talking about.

“Did you get the wrong door? Let me go…”

Seemingly not feeling her resistance, John whispered into Cordy’s ear, “Now, I’ll always be here for you.

It sounded just like a promise.

“Look, just… ah!”

Cordy suddenly yelped as John abruptly scooped her up in his arms

Does he have some sort of fetish for carrying people?!

“You’d hurt your leg,” John said quietly into her ear just then.

Cordy was left speechless.

She actually thought that he was really drunk, but she somehow noticed her foot injury…

So, he was actually not drunk?!

Once that clicked, Cordy did not wait another moment and she started to struggle violently!

While John was not drunk, his body still felt a little floaty. Carrying her was no issue, but it was strenuous carrying her while she flailed around.

“Stop,” he said with restraint, but threateningly nonetheless.

“Let me down. I can walk on my own,” Cordy protested nonetheless.

intimate-and did he not assure before that he was not the type who

Liar!

not care less about what he said and she continued

Cordy into her room, but just as he glimpsed her bed, she shoved him

left feeling dizzy as

like concrete-she could not make him budge or

then, “Please don’t test my patience, Ms.

breath, and there was an

Cordy finally settled down

end, adults could always get the

stopping, huh?” John said, watching her as she

was an almost imperceptible blush on her fair cheeks, and he wondered if

about that.

he could not even come up with an excuse to tease her

go.” Cordy protested

a breather,” John

the hint, Cordy bit her

took a few deep breaths before getting

to be rife with hormones by then, and the

flipped around, and reached for the remote for her air conditioning from her bedside drawer. “Achoo!” John sneezed-it was just

burst of cold air from the air conditioner, he felt his stomach churning

he asked

and John promptly rushed toward it, and she soon heard unrestrained puking

turned quiet, but John

the news just days ago that someone drank themselves to death, and she did not need

doorway when she heard the toilet

was just

their eyes met, Cordy blinked and quietly shut

down, measuring himself

it really that

a while and explained, “I needed to

adding sternly,

decided to stay silent and leave, closing her

did not watch him

hands were clenched into fists for a long while before she

And it would take up to a month to clean

up the next morning with dark circles under

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