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

Lucas gulped.

might be slim, but she was perky where she

Lucas opened his eyes and immediately felt a

to find that Cordy was still clinging to him with a bear's

more mischief after she fell asleep- perhaps even worse than when

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

tried to get out of bed, Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung to him even harder, her lips just inches away from

'Damn it.'

under his breath, worried that something would really happen if

himself as he pried her hands

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

was still asleep, but this time burying her face into the pillow where

not

about to shift her, but he