A Life Debt Repaid novel Chapter 234

Chapter 234

But he also kept sensing a mixture of guilt in his Mommy’s eyes whenever she looked at him.

It was clearly Daddy who let Mommy down.

Richard laid quietly in Cordy’s arms without any resistance at all. He simply allowed her to hold him tight, as if she had lost him once and did not want him away from her side for even a second.

The Ferris wheel carriage climbed higher and higher in the sky until they reached the peak.

Cordy finally calmed herself down and replied to Richard’s earlier question. “I don’t feel sad at all with you around.”

“Mommy.” Richard stretched his hand out and wiped the tears away from her face.

That was when Cordy realized that she was tearing up.

It was probably from emotions that she had kept to herself for too long.

It was only now that she allowed herself to release a little bit of it.

Cordy said affectionately, “Dicky, I’m really lucky to have you around.”

“No matter who Daddy marries, I’ll always be by Mommy’s side,” Richard promised.

“Okay.” Cordy caressed Richard’s head lovingly as she smiled.

“Actually…” Richard looked up at Cordy, “Daddy doesn’t like Jessica.”

Cordy shook her head.

It was not that she didn’t believe Richard’s words, but she did not care.

“He really doesn’t. When I was younger, although Jessica frequently came looking for Daddy when we were abroad, Daddy would always be very cold and distant toward Jessica. Mommy is the one whom Daddy likes. It’s Great-Grandpa who insists on Daddy and Jessica being together,” Richard went on agitatedly, “Daddy won’t really end up marrying Jessica. Daddy once told me when we were overseas that he’ll only marry…”

“Dicky,” Cordy cut him off.

Richard looked at her through his big, dark eyes.

“Little children shouldn’t be worried about adults’ affairs.” Cordy did not wish for Richard to be involved in such troubles, which he should not even be burdened with in the first place. “You just need to remember that whatever happens between Daddy, Mommy, and even Jessica, we all love you. No one or nothing can ever change that.”

She really regretted not coming back with John back then.

The Stuarts had businesses in North City as well. She would very well have returned directly to North City and continued being together with John.

That way, it would never have given her the chance to intervene.

She had thought that John had no other woman by his side aside from herself. Although she had never expressed her romantic affections toward him, she always thought that John would either stay a bachelor his whole life or end up marrying no one else but her.

She never took the initiative over the years because she had been pampered as the center of everyone’s attention since young. She had her pride and she would never allow herself to throw her dignity to the wind and pursue others. She would rather wait her entire life than cheapen. herself that way.

But now, John had another woman in his life.

Now that she was faced with a threat, she had completely changed.

She knew very well that if she did not take the initiative now, John would become another woman’s man. She can accept John being a bachelor for life, but never that John would fall in love with another woman.

So she flew back home and made her grandfather bring forward their engagement plans.

In fact, since they were young, the elders of the family had joked about the two of them getting married when they grew up. Although both families had never publicly announced their betrothal, it was tacitly agreed upon. As long as her grandfather raised the issue, the Levines had no reason to reject him, given how close both families were and the commercial value that their marriage would generate.