A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 624

Even as Cordy meekly leaned into Lucas' arms, she was shuddering slightly as if afraid-as if she were abandoned.

Lucas inhaled deeply in turn, feeling unusually grouchy.

He had no idea why, but he just was.

No other woman had put him through a roller coaster of emotions like this —when he wanted to push her away, he chose to bear with it as he held her shaking body.

"Consider this my reward, Cordy," he told her then.

Cordy never heard, even as he continued, "For letting me stay."

There was no telling if he was just telling himself that either.

But at the next instant, he lay down again and gathered her in his arms.

did, he could clearly sense that she was no longer shaking, and her breathing assumed a regular rhythm as she buried her

Lucas gulped.

slim, but she was perky where she needed

next morning, Lucas opened his eyes and

Cordy was still clinging to him with a bear's grip-she certainly

to more mischief after she fell asleep- perhaps even worse than when she did the exact

seducing him,

bed, Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung to him even harder, her lips just inches away from reaching his

'Damn it.'

worried that something would really happen if this

himself as

frowned in clear displeasure, but he seized the moment to get out of bed, panting as he

finished and stepped out, Cordy was still asleep, but this time burying her face into the pillow where he just

not afraid

about to shift her, but he eventually chose