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.

shaking, and her breathing assumed a regular rhythm

Lucas gulped.

she was

next morning, Lucas opened his eyes and immediately

his gaze to find that Cordy was still clinging to him with a bear's grip-she certainly slept well, while he did not sleep at

perhaps even worse than when she did the exact same thing

she was deliberately seducing him, but she did not really do

to get out of bed, Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung

'Damn it.'

worried that something would

gritted his teeth and steeled himself as

moment to get out of bed, panting as he strode into the bathroom and splashed his

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

she not afraid

her, but he eventually