Chapter 245

Cordy didn't reply.

Sometimes, silence really could replace everything.

"I didn't mean to hide the fact that I was the man who slept with you when you were eighteen," John admitted. "I asked you before if you hated him, and you said yes. I thought I’d tell you when our relationship was more stable, when you no longer rejected physical contact with me. Maybe...

Just maybe, you’d be able to accept my presence."

Cordy listened quietly, not interrupting him at all. And so, John went on.

"At that time, I had just returned from abroad and was drinking with Bob and a few other friends. At the bar, I saw you while you were delirious. A man approached you, and you tried to refuse him. I went up to you two and pushed him away, and then you leaned against me. You felt hot to touch. I admit that I took you to a hotel, but where else was I going to take you? I didn’t know, and you were burning up. I asked you, but you didn't say anything. After that, when we reached the hotel, you pushed me onto the bed, and..." John trailed off, looking back at Cordy.

lips. So many years had passed since the incident, and the blurred images in her mind

that night. If you hadn't left the morning before I woke up, you could’ve seen that I was bruised all over from

tightly. John was bringing up the past that she wanted to forget so badly with such

you before. But I had my pride; I was young and wild, and after you forced me to sleep with you and abandoned me, I was upset. I returned abroad, but it only lasted a

all the pressure and burden of the family, and devoted myself to work. I had to travel between home and abroad frequently, and I simply couldn't find the time to

felt her heart

could she have abandoned

doctor and nurse telling her that her baby had been stillborn when she was on the operation table. She had been so distraught that she didn't even

simply accepted the fact that her

getting revenge on me?" Cordy asked, instead of explaining anything. It was futile to say anything, especially

revenge on you. But after calming down, I chose to understand you. You weren't even nineteen, and you were still

That was true.

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