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.

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

Lucas gulped.

she was

daylight arrived the next morning, Lucas opened his

Cordy was still clinging to him with

fell asleep- perhaps even worse than when she did the exact same thing

would have suspected that she was deliberately seducing him, but she did not really do anything

pushed her away and tried to get out of bed, Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung

'Damn it.'

breath, worried that something would really happen if this

gritted his teeth and steeled himself as he

displeasure, but he seized the moment to get out of bed, panting as he strode into the bathroom and splashed his own face with cold water before taking a

asleep, but this time burying her face into the pillow where he just

she not afraid of

to shift her, but he