Cordy's eyes were welling with tears even as she asked, "Can't you just call off the wedding?"
"No," John replied.
"You'll definitely regret it," Cordy told him solemnly.
"Even so, I'll marry Nana," John told her definitively.
Cordy bit her lip—she had so much more to say, but she could not say them.
John was frighteningly determined, and she could not persuade him at all.
There was nothing she could do.
"Don't waste your time on me." John remained unmoved by her misery. "I'm not worth it."
With those words, he turned to leave, completely cold toward Cordy.
Cordy ultimately could not stop the tears streaming down her cheeks.
She always thought herself strong and was prepared for John's rejection.
But if John really was that easy, Nana would not have to push him this far.
And now, each time John was being cruel to her, it felt like her heart was cut to the quick…
She did not even see Sean chasing down John, snapping icily at him across the walkway in the hospital, "John Levine!"
John wheeled on him. "You want to beat me up too?"
Just like when Patrick beat him up to stand up for Cordy.
Would Sean do the same?
To be fair, he really deserved it now.
"I'm not that violent," Sean said icily.
John remained unmoved, so Sean said, "I just want to tell you that if you've really made your choice, stand with it until the end. Don't waver."
"I know," John replied with assurance and entered Nana's ward, which was just next door.
Cordy wheeled herself out of his ward to find John leaving.
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