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?"

stared coolly at 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 relationship with him now, I'd be the one getting hurt. In that sense, I have

not in a relationship because you don't have what it takes. It has nothing

retort left Noel flushing, but it was true-she did not even have a chance to get close to

never even

sake? I think nothing of them, and they’re all springboards for me to rise above. If anything,

could not say anything

suffered was

hopes on John now, and since you're so smart, you'd know the person who did this to you. My advice is to give up on futile resistance, properly admit to your mistake, and accept that this is

came to laugh at Cordy, her real purpose

come, since she wanted

responded, and Noel

nice-l mean, who could you put your hopes on now? Did you think you could get yourself out of this? It's

door swung open, cutting