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

"What about the

if she has other arrangements. novelxo She'll

"Okay."

Richard and John conversing intermittently,

were done, she offered, "I'll wash

the servants away

John said politely. "I can do it. You can go

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

and before returning inside, she told Richard, "Come get me in

can keep

but it somehow felt like

that Richard loved playing with John. After all, John was the one who raised him as a child, and Richard worshiped

the study to work, and after the video conference,

up disappointed, since Richard never came

occasions, it was not the parents who were reluctant to leave