A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 309

Cordy scoffed. "Well, you don't. All you can do is be two-faced so the one with actual power has to pull your strings."

Noel's face fell.

So, Cordy guessed everything.

"Word of advice, Noel-you shouldn't upset people way above your league. You'll only hurt yourself."

"Hmph." Noel snorted, not bothered with pretenses just then.

She came to laugh at Cordy anyway, and she had suffered Gordy’s strut for far too long!

"Don't get so conceited, Cordy. You're just jealous that I managed to get someone so powerful to support me while you fall to such disgrace!" Noel laughed with eyes filled with disdain. "It's your own fault for not knowing your place, upsetting people you shouldn't. And here I thought how tough you'd be and that John Levine was really hopelessly in love with you. So what? You've been here for 24 hours, but did he come to bail you out? How much do you think you're worth in the face of personal gain?"

Noel, who looked more smug and more excited the more she spoke. "Thank goodness I'm smart-1 almost made the same mistake you did with seducing John. If I really were in a

have what it takes. It has nothing to do

but it was true-she did not even have a chance

he never even

live for men's sake? I think nothing of them, and they’re all springboards for me to rise above. If anything, you deserved this, being stupid as you are, always suffering because of

could not say anything to

was definitely because

pinning your hopes on John now, and since you're so smart, you'd know the person who did this to

Cordy, her real

come, since she wanted

and Noel

consequences if you don't play nice-l mean, who could you put your hopes on now? Did you think you

steel door swung