A Life Debt Repaid novel Chapter 400

Chapter 400

While every journalist swarmed towards John and Jessica, Patrick asked Cordy softly, "Are you alright? Can you walk?"

"I’m fine," Cordy said, pivoting her ankles a little—it hurt a little, but it wouldn't affect her that much.

"Don't push yourself," Patrick told her.

"I'm not," Cordy replied, determined.

"Okay."

Patrick shrugged, and said nothing else.

Cordy straightened herself in turn, and put her hand around Patrick's arm again and entered the hall.

Behind them, John and Jessica naturally saw them and the rather intimate exchange.

"I'm surprised my cousin’s already so close with Cordy," Jessica said, seemingly nonchalant.

John didn’t react at all, as if he didn't care.

Or perhaps he just didn't want to show it in front of Jessica.

Jessica controlled herself in turn-she was going to announce the date of their wedding tonight, anyway.

Over the past month, her grandfather William Stuart had been determined to push the issue. John himself had stayed at Rocktown the entire time, to help with the Stuarts' business.

"Mr. Levine, rumor has it that you've been staying with Miss Stuart throughout your stay in Rocktown. Could we consider that a sign that the wedding is soon?”

"It's alleged that Mr. Levine is already helping Miss Stuart with management of Stuart Holdings. Would you be giving up on Levine Ventures for her sake after you marry, and place your focus on Stuart Holdings instead?"

"Miss Stuart, word has it that Richard Levine is your biological son. Is that true? We understand that you were childhood friends with Mr. Levine- when did romance blossom between you two?"

John didn’t respond at all, keeping mum the whole time.

On the other hand, Jessica was much friendlier and replied mildly, "It just so happens that Stuart Holdings had a particularly troublesome issue to deal with during John's stay at Rocktown, and we needed his help. That said, we'll be focusing on our respective careers after our wedding. We've yet to consider whether we would be staying in Rocktown or North City afterwards."

"As for Dicky—who’s Richard Levine to you, he'd always been my son, and I raised him abroad. He's still young, and the most important thing right now is his growth and studies. I must earnestly ask everyone not to bother a child or write anything about him. Thank you very much."

Jessica picked her words deliberately, making Dicky's roots sound ambiguous so that everyone else would misunderstand that the boy was her biological son.