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.

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

don't aggravate him any

John was not playing along at all, and he simply told Alan, "I'll be right

want to see me die in front of you that badly?! Just like how you had to watch your own most beloved parents die all

yelling, and he appeared to be in such

at John nervously at the

fingers twitched in

was, he could not leave without

when Cordy shook his hand off-successfully this

complaints since

her mother were still alive or if her father was

told John coolly, "Don't make me bear the weight of a

other words, it would overwhelm her if

cracking even as

another glance. "Do you mind giving me

blinked, just as John

about it-she was