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 more

did not expect that she would

that as she closed her eyes and kept

near strangers because she

slightly and found John also asleep on

small couch, so it looked like he was mostly cramping

at the hospital–their roles

her feet, she picked up her blanket and tried to lay it over

he was close to her, John opened his eyes, leaving her in shock and

“Sorry, I… Oh!”

as suddenly caught her wrist, and firmly pulled.

body fell into his arms, while she felt like the world spun around her.

flipped around and pinned her

into each other’s eyes in

watched as John suddenly leaned

heart was racing.

rejecting what was coming, and she

she hesitated for a moment when she

bit her lip, watching as John

And closer.

her eyes and clenched her knuckles, as if to make her accept a certain

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