A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 623

Cordy's chest hurt.

She and John were never married, and he died when they confirmed their feelings for each other.

Lucas was in turn frowning-he did not expect that a casual comment would invoke so much emotion in her.

Nonetheless, it was clear that the so-called 'late friend' was very important to her, and they might have been in love.

His heart somehow started to hurt too, even though he could not quite describe why.

Naturally, he was not actually jealous—it was just his pride gnawing at him.

After all, no woman could ever be indifferent toward him over the years, but Cordy genuinely seemed to be an exception to that rule.

Naturally, he found that a little hard to accept.

"I'm going to bed," Lucas said, headed into the room.

her own room as well, even as the pain in

many regrets when it came to John that she could never get over them for

losing sleep, unable to

not have held out too much hope-her condition eased that night at the hospital because she could lean into

that it was gone, she could not sleep normally once

really been tormenting her, denying her a

her that if this went on, her health would be seriously affected-that

completely unable to fall asleep aside from sleeping at

then-she felt the rush to head inside Lucas' room to try again, to see if she could sleep if she were in his

his door now or what insults the sharp-tongued man had in store for her. Moreover, there

took out

them since Jim advised her not to get reliant on them. However, after Lucas just mentioned John and used certain sensitive terms, she

was filled with such

more pills than she usually did, but it still took

It was 3 AM.

in someone else's home, and he was a clean freak too. However, perhaps because it