A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 279

After Cordy left work, she headed straight to John’s apartment.

It was only after she arrived and saw the food placed on the table that she remembered that she hadn't eaten.

In fact, she had forgotten that it was now dinnertime.

Winston invited her to join them eagerly, while Dicky was also hugging her leg and saying, * Mommy! I missed you so much! Let's eat together- Winston made us a lot of good food.”

Unable to resist Dicky's enthusiasm, and because she afforded Kyle an opening to attack her because she wasn't eating well that one time, Cordy wouldn’t allow herself to repeat the same amateur mistake.

Even if Kyle was dead, John lives-and he was far more dangerous than Kyle.

As she sat at the dining table, John never once spoke to her and maintained his noble aloofness.

Cordy finally looked at the food on the table to see that almost every dish was her favorite.

She then remembered that Dicky’s tastes were just like hers; therefore this wasn't the least bit surprising.

Picking up her knife and fork, she started eating.

they ate, Dicky's chipper voice made it obvious how happy he was to

looked like she was about to put down her knife

choked from the

and even less so now that she had a son;

has you, and that's enough," she

say, so she quickly added, "I’m full now. I'd be sick

to be as big as

Cordy smiled tenderly. She genuinely felt that no matter how bad things got, all was right with the

soon after; and it was because

his little desk, she spent an hour teaching him the proper pronunciation; to the point

if her 1600 SAT score was just

She simply couldn't understand.

own flesh and blood—was simply unable to absorb the

restrain herself, finally realizing that peace in the

of mothers, she would turn into the stereotypical

kept restraining herself. She repeatedly told herself that she wasn’t upset and that Dicky was her

Mommy?" Dicky leveled a sad puppy look at her, perhaps

with him, they left in tears from sheer helplessness. One of