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.

a tinge of tenderness in his

nodded. "What

if she has other arrangements. novelxo She'll be here if

"Okay."

that, they finished brunch, with Richard and John conversing

she offered, "I'll

the servants

alright," John said politely. "I can do it. You can

nothing else, since she had a video conference scheduled for the afternoon and she did not want

"Come get me in the study if you need more

Mommy. You can keep working," Richard quickly

understanding, but

normal 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, it was

Richard never

parents who were reluctant