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.

enough;

as she rose to her feet, Kyle suddenly asked her, "Have you ever loved me,

her lips, actually surprised he would

answer him then,

earnest about

nice to work tirelessly day and night for someone I don’t

his knuckles

Yes.

had been

himself. He also kept coming up 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

was him who let

his head; for a

of the