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

it clean,' she told the bodyguards as she walked past

they replied

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 a long

opened, Jessica was left staring at a black barrel trained on her very

the man...only to find over a dozen men in black outside, all having their guns

formation, so that Patrick, who was on a

no emotion in his eyes at all,

the door were long since left unconscious

visibly, she growled through clenched teeth, ’What do you

you're doing,"

want to turn against me over this

reason we're at

here, but whatever it is, our grandfathers