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.

up opposite Cordy to look down on Cordy, the delight in her eyes hardly

told the bodyguards as she walked

they

open the door for her while gloating, "Sorry, Cordy, but I'm not staying for the mess.

the instant the door opened, Jessica was left staring at

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

so that Patrick,

no emotion in his eyes

Jessica posted outside the door

through clenched teeth, ’What do you think you are doing,

doing," Patrick

to turn

reason we're at

a misunderstanding here, but whatever it is, our grandfathers can talk