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.

grandfather and grandson were still very much on edge, Lawrence quickly tried to reason with John. "Sir,

him any further,

playing along at all, and

front of you that badly?! Just like how you had to watch your own most

all that yelling, and he appeared to be

John..." Lawrence was staring at John nervously at

twitched

was, he

Cordy shook

she had no complaints since families came

her father was devoted to her, she would do anything

bear

other words, it would overwhelm her

clenched, his knuckles cracking

said, turning toward Patrick without sparing John another glance.

as John

question about