A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 621

Cordy asked, ’Didn't I come anyway?" "Which is why I'm surprised," Lucas admitted—he really did not hold out much hope in Cordy, and she was just his last resort.

He was certainly surprised that she really came, and he knew her enough to expect her laughing at him and not actually care what happened to him.

Maybe she actually was interested in him?!

She kept saying otherwise, but felt the complete opposite inside...

Cordy frowned right then, noticing something weird about the look on his face. ' What are you thinking right now?"

"Nothing." Lucas perished the thought. "I'll just be lodging for the night and will leave tomorrow once my luggage has been found."

"What if it isn't found?’

"Then I'll head to the embassy to get my passport replaced without bothering you!" Lucas' restraint lasted for just a couple seconds before he started losing it again.

"Just one night," Cordy said reluctantly.

you asked me to once I get my passport,’ Lucas said. 'I’m not interested in

the case," Cordy

actually had trouble understanding why she would take him in, but she could pretend that she was just

shotgun," she

that, while Cordy headed to the

down and was about to turn on the ignition, Richard spoke from the

hopeful, while Cordy's

had mistaken Lucas for

boy, since she occasionally was

so he would have trouble getting

again, since

obviously startled when someone called out to him from behind, probably because he did not notice

small head staring tearfully at him, his diminutive form somehow making his heart skip a

won't have

"Daddy..."

stopped him

did not stop him immediately because she was composing herself, fearful that her voice would

as if she was so emotional she would mistake Lucas to be John -her heart was simply aching