A Life Debt Repaid novel (John and Cordy) novel Chapter 485

Cordy regarded Jessica coolly while her body stiffened ever so slightly, a chill unwittingly running down her spine.

Even so, she repressed the terror seizing her chest and remained incredibly calm.

But even if Cordy didn’t show it, Jessica knew for sure that Cordy was afraid—no one would feel nothing in this situation.

"Never crossed your mind that I'd go this far, have you?" She laughed savagely. "Don't you regret dying by my hand in this fashion? I won't mind admitting trying and failing to take your life so many times, only for you to be so kind as to send yourself to my doorstep. You really shouldn't get full of yourself, y'know?"

"Do you think John would forgive you if you killed me?" Cordy asked her.

"Would he forgive me even if I don't?" Jessica asked in return. "He'd treat me the same, and it's just better for me if I eliminated a potential threat. And who knows? With you dead, maybe he'd completely give up when there's nothing left for him."

Cordy pursed her lips, her eyes growing colder.

However, Jessica's patience had already worn out. She stood up opposite Cordy to look down on Cordy, the delight in her eyes hardly disguised.

"Make it clean," she told the bodyguards as she walked past them.

"Yes, ma'am," they replied respectfully.

With that, Jessica gestured for another bodyguard to open the door for her while gloating, "Sorry, Cordy, but I'm not staying for the mess. You've been allowed to live for far too long, so there's no need to regret anything—you should’ve been dead a long time ago!"

But the instant the door opened, Jessica was left staring at a black barrel trained on her very own forehead.

As she narrowed her eyes, the two bodyguards behind her promptly whipped out their guns to aim at the man…only to find over a dozen men in black outside, all having their guns out and aiming it at the doorway.

They even left a gap between their formation, so that Patrick, who was on a wheelchair behind them, could peer through them.