A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1194

"Okay."

Cordy picked up her knife and fork and started eating slowly.

She was going to argue but noticed upon a closer look that the food really were all her favorites.

"You didn't have to make my favorites exclusively," she said, seemingly offhandedly. "I'm not picky with food..."

"I feel guilty imposing on you today, so take this as a token of gratitude."

Cordy said nothing else at that and treated it as an actual polite gesture.

"By the way, didn’t Wendy say she was coming? Why isn't she here?" Richard asked.

Cordy looked up at Richard just then—her son really liked Wendy, did he not?

"She always sleeps in. Leave her be—don't disturb her now," John said flatly.

somehow thought she heard a tinge of tenderness in

nodded. "What about

arrangements. novelxo She'll be here

"Okay."

with that, they finished brunch, with Richard and John conversing intermittently,

they were done, she offered,

sent the servants away

John said politely. "I can do

said nothing else, since she had a video conference scheduled for the afternoon and she

she told Richard, "Come get me

It's alright, Mommy. You can

to be understanding, but

a deep breath and told herself that it was normal that Richard loved playing with John. After all, John was the one who raised him as a child,

to the study to work, and after

disappointed, since Richard never came looking

that on most occasions, it was not the parents who were reluctant to leave their children—it was