A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 29

There was no reply this time.

Cordy pursed her lips and turned toward Richard. “Your daddy is working overtime tonight. Would you like to come home with me?”

“Okay!” Richard actually appeared excited. “I would like to visit your home, Mommy

Cordy smiled and patted his little head adoringly.

Arriving home, she put on a cartoon for him while wondering what to cook for dinner

Although she had lived abroad for years, she was too busy trying to earn a living to cook for herself. It was beef jerky when she did not have money, and takeout when she did.

And after thinking about it, she decided on takeout–she would not have to worry about the food either when it was from an expensive restaurant

She sat beside Richard, making her orders solemnly

“Can I change the channel, Mommy?” Richard asked just then.

“Sure,” she said, and pointed at the remote lying just ahead.

Richard picked it up and started switching the channels, while Cordy continued to swipe through takeout

menus

away her phone and saw that Richard had

Dicky?” she could not

if it was only

was

had dinner together at 7

the meal and even helping Cordy clean up the table afterwards. He then asked Cordy to watch TV with him, picking a variety show channel this

they nestled on

the star actress making an appearance on the show

asked offhandedly. “Do you like her?”

“Yes!”

certainly beautiful, and one

too,” Richard

Is that so?”

Richard nodded

that, they kept watching

yawn, Cordy could not help

getting off

Help him take a bath, and I’ll be there soon to take him

[Okay.]

feeling as if she had been ordered around by John without any