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.

voice spoke beside

face of his and saw that his fair,

covered in cuts and bruises of every

asked, “Where

was terribly raspy and her throat hurt a lot

replied, but he quickly added, “Don’t worry. You’re safe

However, Cordy did not believe that ‘safe’ applied when she

did not have the strength to resist since

her and arched

placed several soft pillows behind her so that she could

her wrist

actually a makeshift

After she sat up with John’s help, he

she nodded-her throat was so

her a glass of water. “Wait a

can do it myself,” Cordy insisted, mustering all her

she suddenly realized that

John told her, holding

three days, and you haven’t eaten anything. The IV

it makes sense if you’ve lost

at him then-she was asleep for

he said, his lips curling up into a

Cordy was not fatally injured, but she simply refused