Cordy opened her mouth to speak, but swallowed her words. What could she say to stop him anyway?
She couldn’t threaten John with suicide, because she wasn’t that despicable.
"Cordy."
As John and Nana disappeared from sight, a familiar voice sounded beside her.
Cordy had no idea when Patrick arrived, how long he had been there, or how much he had seen.
She couldn’t say anything at that moment.
"I'm taking you back to your room," he told her, and wheeled her around.
That was when Cordy saw Sean as well.
They must have arrived together, staying behind and quietly watching her misery.
She couldn’t control her tears, and kept crying despite the irony of it all.
When they returned to her room, Patrick brought a box of tissues to wipe her tears for her, but she refused and took the box instead.
She slowly calmed down, refusing to let Dicky see her being vulnerable.
She always appeared invincible, and rarely showed how she truly felt to others.
It was after a long time that she finally stopped crying.
When she did, she became immeasurably calm, as if nothing happened just now at all.
"I told you to give up on Lucas before," Sean said after ascertaining that she had calmed down.
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