A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 412

Alan demanded, "I've had enough of your antics for one night, John! Let go of her right now!"

"I'll return once I've sent her home!" John shot back.

"You, sending Cordy home? In front of everyone attending the Stuarts’ charity ball?!" Alan barked. "Do you even

understand that you're humiliating them?! If Cordy hadn't been smart enough, you would've already ruined your own reputation! I have never been this disappointed in you!”

"For once," John replied bluntly.

Alan was left bristling by John's reply right then, and his face suddenly flushed, as if he could not breathe just then.

"Please calm down, sir," Lawrence said, immediately noticing Alan's condition after serving Alan for years. "The doctors already mentioned that you shouldn't get agitated because of your high blood pressure. You've already had a stroke before, and the consequences would be devastating if it recurs..."

John calmed down slightly as well when he saw Alan's condition.

However, he was not letting go of Cordy either.

were still very much on edge, Lawrence quickly tried to reason with

him any further, or

at all, and he simply

front of you that badly?! Just like how you had to watch your own most beloved parents die all those years

yelling, and he appeared to be in such bad shape he

was staring at John nervously

twitched

was, he could not leave

when Cordy shook his hand off-successfully this

had no complaints since families came

still alive or if her father was devoted to her, she would do anything

"Don't make me bear the weight of

it would overwhelm her

knuckles cracking

Cordy said, turning toward Patrick without sparing John another

John looked

about it-she