A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 273

Once Cordy was done talking, she simply sat and stared at Kyle silently, even as he crumbled from disbelief.

He was working so hard to restrain himself. Otherwise, he would suffer even more, especially when detained in a place like this.

The past twenty-four hours had been more than enough for a life lesson.

"Take care,” Cordy said, and began to leave.

She had no other words of parting for Kyle, either-he was plenty pathetic now, even if she wanted to call him that.

He faced prison time, and given the public's outrage towards his actions, his family, which was already going through a crisis, could very well go bankrupt soon.

When that happened, he would truly lose everything and suffer no end of contempt. He would also be the pariah of the Jessops.

plenty enough; Cordy didn't need to

her feet, Kyle suddenly asked her, "Have you ever loved me,

would ask this

have asked that before too, but she didn't answer

now, he seemed earnest about

said coolly. "I'm not so nice to

knuckles

Yes.

was no way he had been ignorant of Cordy's

with excuses for Cordy's sudden rise to fame, insisting on believing that she had always fooled around with other men and that she had never loved him. It was his way to cope, to tell himself that he didn't make a mistake in breaking up with her-that he

him who let her down,

hung his head; for a long time, he couldn't look

of the corner of his