A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 428

The elevation of the slope made it difficult to traverse and even more so for John, who

had to carry Cordy.

However, she was really spent and could not even open her eyes as she leaned in his

arms.

She vaguely heard cars screeching to a stop and the whirring rotors of a helicopter…

Patrick’s people had probably arrived.

What perfect timing-not a moment too soon and not a moment too late.

With that, Cordy finally dozed off.

When she woke up again, she found herself in a place she did not recognize.

It was not the hospital, her apartment in North City, or John’s apartment.

She blinked, her eyelids still feeling very heavy just like her head.

She felt like she had slept for a long while to the point that she could not wake up.

“You’re awake.” John’s deep voice spoke beside her just then, quietly

face of his and saw that his

covered in cuts and bruises

she asked, “Where

terribly raspy and her throat hurt a

John replied, but he quickly added, “Don’t

‘safe’ applied when

the strength to

you up,” John told her and arched his back to gently pick her up,

her so that

then that she saw she had her wrist attached to an IV drip and

actually a

sat up with John’s help, he

throat was so dry

John got up and poured her a glass of

Cordy insisted, mustering

and tired, and she

holding the glass beside her lips. “You’ve

asleep for three days, and you haven’t eaten anything. The IV was the

it makes sense

at him then-she was

he said, his lips

injured, but she simply refused to wake