A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 532

"More or less."

Cordy did not want to make her happiness obvious, as she was selfishly convinced that only John was allowed to see it.

"Well, I'm afraid I have to be a killjoy," Patrick said, his tone clearly serious just then.

Cordy frowned slightly, but it was enough for John to notice that reaction and stare fixedly at her.

"You see, I have news: Jessica is missing," Patrick said very clearly then.

"Missing?" Cordy's heart skipped a beat, as if something horrible would happen.

"After John exposed Jessica's side of the family at his trial, they, along with my grandfather and myself were brought in to assist with the investigation. James was placed under arrest since there was enough evidence against him, but when William, my grandfather, and myself were released, the authorities informed us that Jessica went missing the instant they moved to arrest her, and was told that she was not in Rocktown."

she went to the capital?" Cordy asked-that was where Fred Cranston was,

City, actually," Patrick admitted. "The authorities just found out that she arrived at North City yesterday, and I suspected that she

Cordy said confidently, since she

know that my grandfather had tried everything: tripling our efforts in business, baiting them, planting incriminating evidence... But nothing seemed to work on William. John, on the other hand,

that Patrick

like to work for me, now that Levine Ventures is liquidated?"

savior?" Cordy asked, raising a

certainly pragmatic,

He's too busy," Cordy added, rejecting

did not press the

John were extremely rare. If

prosecutor for