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 as she buried her head over his

Lucas gulped.

be slim, but she was perky where she needed to

Lucas opened his eyes and immediately felt a sore

clinging to him with a bear's grip-she certainly slept well, while

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

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

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

'Damn it.'

swore under his breath, worried that something

his teeth and steeled himself as he pried her

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

she not

to shift her, but he eventually