A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 296

After dinner, Cordy helped Dicky take a bath as usual. She then handed him a storybook to read by himself while she took a bath.

When she undressed, she looked at the mirror to see a large bruise on her rear flank. It hurt from the slightest movement, but she gritted her teeth and finished her bath. She changed into her pajamas, then took a tube of ointment from the first-aid kit.

She stood before the full-length mirror in the living room, pulling up her shirt and lowering her trousers slightly, baring her hip so that it was easier to apply the ointment.

However, she blinked just as she was about to do it-she saw John in the mirror's reflection.

He was suddenly approaching her from the living room, as if he had been there for a while without her noticing.

Cordy promptly lowered her shirt and pulled up her trousers, scowling as she snapped, ’What are you doing here?"

She clearly recalled changing her door password to stop him, and therefore never expected him to enter anyway without her knowing.

"Dicky opened the door for me,' he admitted.

Cordy pursed her lips.

but

"What are you doing here? To take Dicky home? He's going to bed soon, and it's the weekend tomorrow—I'd suggest letting

away from her, and was

only the spot where she

light on

"What

her pajama shirt right then, and she snapped,

weren't hurt," John growled, his eyes fixed at

It was simply gruesome.

not as serious as

how to say that it hurts,

just a knock. It's less

yelped because John poked the bruise with his fingers; she couldn't withstand

John, he told her, "If it

Cordy was silent.

your shirt,' he

"John."