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, you

aggravate him any further, or

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

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

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

at John

twitched

matter how determined he was, he could not leave without

Cordy shook his hand

no complaints since families

if her father was devoted

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

it would overwhelm her if Alan

clenched, his knuckles cracking even as he

toward Patrick without sparing John another glance. "Do you mind giving me a ride

just as John

question about it-she was