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.

to once I get my passport,’ Lucas said. 'I’m not

the case,"

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

shotgun," she then

that, while Cordy headed to the

as she sat down and was about to turn on the ignition, Richard spoke from the back with a quiver

sounded uncertain yet hopeful, while Cordy's

mistaken Lucas

boy, since she

it was dark in the night, so he would have trouble getting

called again, since Lucas did

called out to him from behind, probably because he did

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

won't have such a huge kid

"Daddy..."

stopped

fearful that her voice would crack with emotion if she spoke too

was not as if she was so emotional she would mistake Lucas to be