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.

she heard a tinge of tenderness

Richard nodded. "What about

has other arrangements. novelxo She'll be here if there aren't

"Okay."

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

done, she offered, "I'll

sent the servants away

do it. You

else, since she had a video conference scheduled for the afternoon and she did not want

told Richard, "Come

It's alright, Mommy. You can keep working,"

understanding, but it somehow

breath and told herself that it was normal that Richard loved playing with

study to work, and after the video conference, it

since Richard never came looking for

occasions, it was not the parents who were reluctant to leave their children—it was the other way