A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 617

Richard asked curiously from the backseat, "Mommy? Who was that?' "Nobody important," Cordy replied flatly.

"But he just said that you're the only person he knows in North City."

"Impossible." Cordy was utterly skeptical.

How was he able to stay in North City for a whole week if that was the case?

"I don't think he's lying," Richard said seriously then.

Cordy frowned slightly in turn-her son usually never pried into other people's affairs.

In fact, over the last three years, she slowly noticed that Richard's personality was different from what she previously imagined. While he may be sweet, energetic, talkative, and adorable when around her, he was indifferent toward people who were not close to him.

Whenever she sent Richard to school herself, she would notice many girls sliding peeks of infatuation at him, but they would never get close.

on, she spoke to a class teacher about it, and only then did she find out that Richard was dubbed

she spoke to Richard about it. Richard in turn confessed that this was how he always had been, and that he behaved a little differently when he helped John woo her. However, he insisted that it did not hurt him -that he had a

interested in a person other than her. "Do you think I should help him?" Cordy asked Richard just then, since she would not want Richard to think her

shook his head and said earnestly, "I don't know. I just think

moment before saying, 'Well, I guess

it be troublesome for

at all. We'd be going home late, though. Do you

"Nope."

unfamiliar number again via the

said nothing, probably

and timing -did he not

not get petty for his son's

"South Hill Street Precinct."

drove toward that street

extra careful because Richard was in