A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 116

“It’s alright, I’ll stay here with you,” John replied, as if it was only natural. “Sleep.”

As Cordy stared at him, he said, “You often came by to visit and take care of me when I was staying in the hospital before.”

“You were hurt because of me,” Cordy pointed out.

“I always repay a favor a hundredfold. You don’t have to be so formal with me, Ms. Sachs,” John said with a determined tone.

Cordy pursed her lips–she had this nagging feeling that she would hurt the little child in John if she turned him down.

As such, she simply turned around, keeping her back to him and closed her eyes to sleep.

And with that, John sat by her hospital bed, staring at her delicately small figure.

She really was small… So, so small.

And yet, she was so tough it hurt.

John’s Adam’s apple bobbed just then.

If he stopped her all those years ago, when she was fleeing without a care….

she have been

did not expect that she would really

but did not think that as she closed her eyes

because she

turned slightly and found John also asleep

looked like he was mostly

when he was staying at the hospital–their roles from that

she picked up her blanket and tried to lay it over him as gently as

was close to her, John opened

“Sorry, I… Oh!”

her wrist, and

while she felt like the world

could react, John flipped around and pinned her beneath

other’s eyes in that compromising

leaned in and inched closer

heart was racing.

coming, and she

so, she hesitated for a moment when she met his bright

bit her lip, watching as John leaned closer…

And closer.

clenched