A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1181

John stayed calm and said, "Yeah, I am."

Cordy realized with a start then and snorted coolly, "So you were playing me? Was it that fun?"

"You must have misunderstood, Ms. Sachs. I wasn't avoiding you, but my schedule was packed full and your visit had been sudden," John said before beckoning at Randy. "Please show Ms. Sachs my schedule for the day—"

"I don’t mean today," Cordy growled through her teeth, working hard to make herself stay calm.

She was willing to believe that John did not have time the whole day, since he would definitely be very busy with his company, which was expanding into multiple territories simultaneously.

What she wanted to ask was something else instead. "You deliberately arranged for the shopping center to reshuffle the leases, didn’t you?"

"It was deliberate, yes," John admitted.

"You."

"But that's not an orchestrated effort against you."

at him, so he turned to Randy

"Yes, Mr. Levine."

out to Cordy. "Please

look, took the document, and browsed through its

had no reason to refuse when

through it, but everything about the invitation to tender

the reshuffling, and they

would spur anyone to

for a long time before returning

she turned and strode off,

reminded her, "The deadline for the tender is next month. Please prepare by

and wheeled on him. "This is all a game for you,

it isn't," John replied solemnly. "This is corporate action and the fruit of labor of the many individuals working

have an obligation to the company as well, so I must ask your misunderstanding should your interests

cool glare at him before turning to leave again,

after she was gone that Randy finally could not help asking, "Ms. Sachs

a look, but he was getting impatient too, since he knew all too well how much