A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 624

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.

was no longer shaking, and her breathing assumed

Lucas gulped.

she was perky where she needed to

the next morning, Lucas opened his

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

asleep- perhaps even worse than

him, but she did

Cordy seemed to sense his departure and clung to

'Damn it.'

something would really

himself

in clear 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

was finished and stepped out, Cordy was still asleep, but this time burying her face into

not afraid of

shift her, but he

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