A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 496

Cordy had trouble asking to take Dicky away, even if John already arranged for it.

Deciding to come to a compromise, she asked, "Can I visit him often, like I did before?"

Alan didn't have anyone else around him now.

His son and daughter-in-law died years ago, Jay's fate was still unknown after his accident, while John was now arrested pending trial. Only his daughter Nancy and Nancy's daughter Cora were still at his side after Nancy secretly divorced Ivan York, who had long since left Levine Manor.

To think a big family like the Levines, who once embodied splendor and nobility, would suddenly be in pieces...

Alan had heard Cordy, but he didn’t answer for a long while, leaving Cordy a little bitter and crestfallen.

She certainly didn't have the ability to take Dicky away, just as her conscience and morals stopped her from doing so.

she couldn’t pretend that he didn't exist or

said, "Take

double take, thinking she had

in his eyes-the glimmer of compromising with

to a wheelchair, he remained healthy and spirited, just as he was elegant and imposing. She didn't think that the day would come when life had him beat, since she was convinced that even if age wore

will live with you from now on,"

not

he must have given

it's time I let go,’ he said somberly. "I once desired and demanded too much, and my family had flourished as I foresaw it would...but

was no

man to say something like that, he had

a business discussion, and they'd neve have died in that accident if not for me. I was the one who stubbornly denied Jay a relationship with Zoe, which was why he had that accident. If only I could set aside pride and prejudice to let Zoe stay with us, Jay would've been content with staying in the manor. So