A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 116

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

that as she closed her eyes and kept laying

because she felt too insecure

found John also

so it looked like he

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

blanket and tried to lay it over him as gently as possible.

opened his eyes, leaving her

“Sorry, I… Oh!”

suddenly caught her wrist, and firmly pulled.

fell into his arms, while she felt like the world

she could react, John flipped around and pinned her beneath himself.

other’s eyes in that

John suddenly leaned in and inched closer

heart was

rejecting what was coming, and

hesitated for a moment when she met his bright

watching

And closer.

last instant, she suddenly closed her eyes and clenched her knuckles, as if to make her accept a certain something.

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