A Life Debt Repaid novel (John and Cordy) novel Chapter 272

Cordy whipped out her phone, tapped on the news headlines, and showed it to Kyle. "You were framed by Noel from the very start. Since you’ve been here since yesterday, you probably wouldn't know what's in the news. Here, enjoy!"

Kyle had an idea of what she wanted to show him; he couldn’t be bothered to even glance at it and instead growled through his teeth, "Are you done mocking me?"

"It's not mocking…" Cordy paused. "Actually, I guess it counts."

While Kyle was seething, Cordy tapped on the photos on the article to show him. "That said, I'd prefer it if you can recognize the truth. Why don't you look at those photos?"

Finally, Kyle couldn’t resist the temptation and looked at them. When he did, his eyes turned bloodshot in disbelief.

"I'm sure you're not stupid enough to think John or myself published these photos, are you?" Cordy continued. "This happened even before John came."

"What are you trying to say?!" Kyle growled through clenched teeth.

"You still don't get it, do you? Noel planned everything," Cordy replied. "It was by her design that you were discredited and lost everything. She did all this just so she could break up with you and let you suffer the contempt of the masses."

"How would she get those photos if she weren't there?!" Kyle retorted nonetheless, still adamant on defending himself and Noel.

"Why don't you use your head and think about it?" Cordy said, and patiently pointed out the logic behind everything. "The place you brought me was where you and Noel used to have your little trysts; a place only she would know, and no one else. Don't you think it's possible that after Noel found out what you're going to do, she prepared a hidden camera ahead of time to capture everything?"

"No! That's impossible!" Kyle cried in denial. He couldn’t believe that the Noel who loved him so deeply would actually deceive him—to set him up like this!

After all, Noel was so hopelessly in love with him! In fact, she cared for him so much that she couldn’t bear to let him get hurt at all!

Cordy watched coolly as Kyle reacted to the information.

Kyle barely could stop himself from shaking, his self-control slipping the more he listened.

Even so, Cordy went on. "However, I got pregnant, and she used that as leverage to incite an expose so that everyone would hate me, just like they hate you now. The Sachs in turn dumped me abroad. With that, she didn’t have to compete with anyone for the family's wealth. What she didn’t expect was for me to meet you and return to the country with you. To everyone else, we were the perfect couple. That flared her jealousy again, so she did everything she could to steal everything I had."

"That's enough, Cordy. I don't want to hear it anymore…" Kyle's eyes were red, and his voice was shaking.

Even so, his tragic state was all his own making; and so Cordy continued, unmoved. "When our wedding was called off, you two got together as if it was perfectly natural. But Noel wasn’t satisfied, because I started a relationship with John Levine at that time. You probably didn't know she was trying to seduce him while you were still dating her, did you?"

Kyle's whole body was trembling, and he was crumbling inside.

"But this time, she hit a snag," Cordy went on coolly. "John refused to let her near him, and she didn't even have the chance to bat her eyelashes at him. She only realized she was completely out of her league when Jessica Stuart showed up, and she finally gave up on John. Or maybe she’s already satisfied since she believes I won't get John, either."