A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 485

Cordy regarded Jessica coolly while her body stiffened ever so slightly, a chill unwittingly running down her spine.

Even so, she repressed the terror seizing her chest and remained incredibly calm.

But even if Cordy didn't show it, Jessica knew for sure that Cordy was afraid—no one would feel nothing in this situation.

"Never crossed your mind that I'd go this far, have you?’ She laughed savagely. "Don't you regret dying by my hand in this fashion? I wont mind admitting trying and failing to take your life so many times, only for you to be so kind as to send yourself to my doorstep. You really shouldn't get full of yourself, y'know?"

"Do you think John would forgive you if you killed me?’ Cordy asked her.

"Would he forgive me even if I don't?" Jessica asked in return. "He'd treat me the same, and it's just better for me if I eliminated a potential threat. And who knows? With you dead, maybe he'd completely give up when there's nothing left for him."

Cordy pursed her lips, her eyes growing colder.

opposite Cordy to look down on Cordy, the delight

the bodyguards as she walked past

they

while gloating, "Sorry, Cordy, but I'm not staying for the mess. You've been allowed to live for far too long, so there's no need to regret anything-you should've been dead

opened, Jessica was left staring at a

man...only to find over a dozen men in black outside, all having their guns out and aiming it at the

left a gap between their formation, so that Patrick, who was on a wheelchair behind them, could peer

no emotion in his eyes at all, and he

outside the door were long since

visibly, she growled through clenched teeth, ’What do you think you are doing, dear

doing,"

to turn against me over this

sure she's the reason we're at each other's necks?" Patrick

misunderstanding here, but whatever it is, our grandfathers