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

Richard nodded. "What about

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

"Okay."

with Richard and John conversing intermittently,

they were done, she offered, "I'll

the

do it. You can

nothing else, since she had a video conference scheduled

headed straight there after brunch and before returning inside, she told Richard, "Come get me in the study if you need

Mommy. You can keep working,"

seemed to be understanding, but

loved playing with John. After all, John was the one who raised

the study to work, and after the

Richard never came looking

most occasions, it was not the parents who were