A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 491

Patrick chuckled and teased her, "So you actually can get nervous?" "I just want to know the truth," Cordy replied. "Jessica's wedding with John concerns my safety and personal gain."

Yes, she was just being selfish. The only thing she cared about was whether she could get Dicky even though the wedding fell through!

Patrick shrugged and stopped leaving her hanging. "Before John could say1 I do’, Rocktown's police commissioner himself stormed in with a warrant for his arrest. Turns out John's a suspect in a corporate criminal conspiracy.’

Cordy's fingers clenched. Patrick asked her, "Do you know what that means?"

"The wedding's off," Cordy replied.

Patrick laughed at that. "Even I can't bear to watch this, Cordy. The man would go this far for you, not holding back from destroying his own reputation and his own future just to stop this wedding. And you’re being this calm?"

"How else would I react? Can I change anything?" Cordy asked in return. "I don't get it-how is this different from just rejecting the engagement? He'd be ruining his reputation, anyway!"

smarter than this,’ Patrick said

if he said no to the engagement? Or that Jessica's family wouldn't threaten his family in retaliation? Citizens should never pick fights with government officials-or

everything now,'

individuals,"

been charged. Now it's them who's rejecting him and not the other way around, since John provided the perfect excuse for them to annul the

worried they'd plot against him?" Cordy asked, skeptical about the logic in the decision. "Also, Jessica would definitely retaliate for not getting

Jessica's family would have nothing to do with it," Patrick said plainly. "Our family has a reputation to uphold, and William wouldn't try to kick John when

waste time on the Levines or anyone involved with them now that the Levines are worthless

vengeful Jessica would be, she

left stumped at

his own future just for this, or if he was really arrested for

would

it be called

at Rocktown Detention Center at the moment, but since the crimes he's charged with were committed in North City, he'd be transported there for his