A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 5

John spoke up just then, alleviating the awkwardness.

“Dicky waited for you for over an hour. He usually naps earlier.”

Cordy’s heart skipped a beat, but she pursed her lips and said, “Actually, Mr. Levine, you could’ve just explained that I’m not his mommy.”

John simply watched her with his black eyes quietly then, and the sudden silence left Cordy wondering if she had misspoken.

Still, she did not dwell on it and continued, “The fire was just an accident anyway. You didn’t have to bring me lunch or have those maids take care of me. And how much for the phone? I’ll wire the money to you.”

“I thought you were smart, Ms. Sachs.”

Cordy was at a loss. Was there anything about her that made her look stupid?!

“Dicky needs a mommy,” John continued in his alluring voice, as if it was only natural.

“So?” Cordy raised a brow.

John simply kept his dark eyes fixed on her for a long while.

After the pause, his pitch seemed to deepen. “And he likes you. So you might be able to tell that I’m wooing you, Ms. Sachs.”

Cordy was speechless.

She could never have told. All she felt was that everything he did was imposing!

“You don’t need to respond immediately, Ms. Sachs. After all…”

John then trailed off, as if musing on the right words, “We’re not acquainted yet.”

Obviously, they were just strangers who crossed paths by chance.

Taking a deep breath to calm herself, Cordy said, “Don’t you think you’re being a little childish about a relationship, Mr. Levine?”

John raised a brow—she was already a difficult person, and she appeared even more distant now.

“Wooing me just because your son likes me? Am I just a tool to you? What if your son stops liking me and chooses another woman to be his mommy one day? Are you going to woo her too, Mr. Levine?”

noticed that she was getting

to do with my son. He just happens to like you

thought

love… It must be

just met

to worry about my son falling for another woman either, Ms. Sachs,” John

left

just endorse himself and his son at the same time?

offering her…

feelings of people she just

stared at her with his

All you have to do is offer

John said, cutting her

know my past? I’m not as ideal

judgment, nor do I take issue

and you saw how that

trust

compare me

suddenly turned

thin lips twitched ever so slightly, his expression so icy it left

feel as if she genuinely

laughed without knowing the

someone in this world who

was too good for her—a notion shared even by her own biological father.

he said, “In

words, he would go all out

those words, he turned to leave, seemingly reluctant to waste more time on this matter.

change his

Cordy quickly stopped him when she came to her

stopped, but he did not

out about my

have

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