A Life Debt Repaid novel (John and Cordy) novel Chapter 283

Cordy was left stunned for several seconds. After that, she collected herself and snapped angrily, "You could’ve said that earlier!"

She honestly scared herself, since it almost seemed to be the inevitable conclusion. Did he enjoy teasing her that much?

"You never gave me a chance to speak," John said bluntly.

Cordy was livid—he had literally made a speech, rambling on and on about his academic achievements!

For once, she didn’t get upset with him and left after finishing the rum baba.

As usual, John drove his Maybach and followed her all the way back to her apartment.

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Another two days passed; Cordy was in Dicky's room, once again teaching the boy pronunciation by separating the syllables.

She seemed to hear something outside, but the wall was soundproofed so well that she thought she was simply hearing things.

"Lee-id. Lid." Cordy continued to teach Dicky patiently, having become much calmer after finding out about Dicky's IQ score.

She had done some reading, and found out that prodigies tend to be more single-minded on things. In short, while they could score 120 out of a test with a full score of 100 points, they could also get a big fat zero in certain areas. Unfortunately, there was no chance of them improving on the latter.

Dicky's greatest weakness was perhaps language.

"Lee-id, lid," Dicky repeated after her, and suddenly pronounced another word,"Ree-id. Rid."

Cordy flinched, wondering if she was hearing things again.

She quickly asked, "What was that? Could you repeat that for me, Dicky?"

"Rid," Dicky replied right away.

She pressed urgently, "What about this one?"